Dear Editor:
I was happy to read about the important activities that we can take part in to protect the environment, such as picking up litter ("Elkhorn Earthday," April 26). All sensible people want to enjoy clean air, land, and water and we like to think that future generations will live in an even better environment. These were the original objectives of Earth Day and I am happy to have presented at Earth Day events in the early 1990s.
Sadly, Earth Day Network, the organization behind Earth Day, is now not so practical. Their website for Earth Day 2017 highlights "climate literacy".
This is a big problem for Earth Day's future. As the hypothesis that humanity's carbon dioxide emissions are causing climate change problems falls into disrepute, all those associated with the climate alarm will also lose credibility. Earth Day participants, indeed all practical environmentalists, must distance themselves from the ideologically-driven climate scare or risk the movement degenerating into irrelevance.
Sincerely,
Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech.)
Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
