Toronto Participates in the Global Climate Strike Today

Climate strike protesters gathering 
at the Queen's Park, Toronto 

Strikers are entering the Queen's Park

Posters on a wall outside the Queen's Park TTC Station

Strikers are distributing literature on 
climate change and their demands

A poster demanding 'system change, 
not climate change'

A striker distributing posters 
at the Queen's Park compound

A poster on the ground

A stall distributing literature on climate change

A poster asking for making a choice and being
courageous in taking action for climate change

A student holds out a poster 

Two student participants
in the Queen's Park climate strike

Another striker against the ill-effects
of the Canadian oil pipelines 

Father-son participants
in the climate strike in Toronto

Photos (Climate strike protest at the Queen's Park, 

Toronto: Sept. 27, 2019) © Jerome D'Costa 

Thousands of men, women, students, and children took to the streets of more than 80 cities and towns of Canada today participating in the global climate strike protest that's being held all over the world. 

More than 15,000 people took part in it at the Queen's Park where the Ontario provincial Legislative Assembly is situated, reports CTV News. They carried protest banners, posters, and signs condemning government inaction or inadequate action and demanded immediate action for reducing the global warming for the safety and security of the future generations.

For more, please read the following:

• Thousands turn out to push for action on climate (Sept. 27, 2019)
• 'We are the change': Greta Thunberg tells Canadians to demand action (Sept. 27, 2019)
• Thousands take part in Queen's Park climate strike event (Sept. 27, 2019)
• Safe air, clean water: Canadian climate strike protesters have demands (Sept. 27, 2019)

The Quotation of the Week (February 7 - 13, 2016)

A quotation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on 'climate change and our responsibility,' compiled by Jerome D'Costa

Courtesy: metroNEWS, Toronto

Canada to Observe Its 2012 Earth Hour Tonight

Earth Hour logo

Courtesy: WWF-Canada

Canada, like other countries, is observing its 2012 Earth Hour today (March 31) at 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time in support of the movement against climate change.

Those, who are conscious about the adverse effects of climate change, will switch off unnecessary lights, machines and gadgets for one hour to save energy and, thereby, express their solidarity with like-minded people in the world.

Background of the Earth Hour

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) first organized the Earth Hour in 2007 in Sydney, Australia. In 2008, the Earth Hour was observed in 400 cities in 35 countries, including Canada. Later more countries joined in. 

More Information on the Earth Hour

To know more about the Earth Hour and its impact on the environment, you may visit the following:

• Earth Hour: WWF-Canada
• Earth Hour Anthem
• Earth Hour
• Wikipedia: Earth Hour

Denmark Hosts the UN Climate Change Conference 2009

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The logo of the UN Climate Change Conference 2009
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Photo courtesy: www.cleanskies.com

The two-week UN Climate Change Conference opened today with fanfare in Copenhagen, Denmark, where several thousand government, non-government organization, and other delegates are in attendance from 192 countries. The conference opened amidst both optimism and skepticism. A great number of the delegates are optimistic that a uniform policy will come out of the conference resulting in regulation of greenhouse gases and lessening of global warming.

On the opening day of the conference, 56 newspapers in 45 countries published the same agreed upon editorial, "One World, One Voice." The editorial said, "Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has bee feeble and half-hearted."

At the conclusion, the editorial said, "Overcoming climate change will take a triumph of optimism over pessimism, of vision over short-sightedness.... The Politicians in Copenhagen have the power to shape history's judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it. We implore them to make the right choice."

You may read the full editorial in The Toronto Star today.