Sustainable Orillia

Will the people of Orillia, of Ontario, of Canada, of the world—take up this challenge? Do we really want to imagine the world that will result if we don’t?

Nicholas’s epiphany about her own culpability first surfaced at a conference she was attending in Vienna in 2012.

Most distressing, given the urgency that so many around the world say is needed, is the waste of five years of opportunity to take the actions the world and its young people are expecting from governments at all levels.

A second piece of good news from the conference was an agreement by 150 countries to reduce methane emissions by at least 30% by 2030.

St. Paul’s Centre has begun a Learning Commons to help explore new ways of seeking the common good.

“I have children. And I see the despair in the eyes of some youth. They’re disheartened. They’re aware – they know what’s going on and they fear for their future. We owe it to them to give them something better to hope for,”

“I have children. And I see the despair in the eyes of some youth. They’re disheartened. They’re aware – they know what’s going on and they fear for their future. We owe it to them to give them something better to hope for,”

The one factor that will make or break efforts to meet the challenges of the climate crisis is the will, or lack of it, of our political leaders.