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Ice Storm

By: Cecelia Lee


Climate change marches on though some politicians and corporate leaders refuse to accept it. This photo was taken in December, 2013 in the midst of the ice storm, in Toronto, just before Christmas. The ice felled trees, downed hydro wires, created an ice-skating surface on some streets. It also affected the transportation system in the city. Subways and streetcars couldn’t run due to the conditions –lots of ice and severely cold temperatures.

In the past twelve months, to name two other unusual circumstances – a huge flood in Alberta and a drenching of Toronto last summer. In Toronto a passenger train was caught in the flood in the Don Valley. It could not go forward or back due to the amount of water surrounding it. How truly frightening that must have been.

Added to our climate change’s woes is an article in the March 20, 2014 Toronto Star.

Consider, for example that Environment Canada’s climate change and clean air program is having its budget reduced by an astonishing 77 per cent. The cuts are so deep that they appear designed to break Environment Canada once and for all. (Thomas J. Duck, p. A17)

Floods and an ice storm wreak havoc and our government, urged on by fossil fuels' corporations, continues to keep its head buried in the sand waiting for all of it to go away. They count their nickels, dimes and dollars while Nature revolts at the lack of concern for its condition.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

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