Climate change is a scientific fact and it’s going to get worse with more extreme weather events…….That message delivered to the launch of Sustainable Saint John before a full house at the Museum in Market Square.
Sustainability consultant and writer Carl Diuvenvoorden tells CHSJ News he’s disappointed at the reaction of the federal government because the technology is there but we have been burying our heads in the sand although local governments have been coming up with green initiatives.
He also maintains most people want to do the right thing when it comes to reducing their carbon footprint but barriers will have to be removed so they can do so. He says if there were more recycling bins in offices and fewer garbage cans then there would be more recycling.
Diuvenvoorden says we have to reduce our level of greenmhouse gas emissions to 50 per cent or even 85 per cent of what was being emitted into the atmosphere back in 1990 by 2050.
