Here is the press release from today:
Grandmother Launches Climate Crisis Journey
Salt Spring Island, B.C.: 75 year old Grandmother Dorothy Cutting leaves July 1st on a Climate Crisis journey to Northern Canada.
Most grandmothers of four are looking forward to a summer by the lake watching the kids grow and maybe doing a little babysitting but not Dorothy Cutting. This 75 year old grandmother is worried about the kind of future her grandkids will have if she doesn’t do something about global warming which she calls global heating. “Warming sounds too soft and cuddly,” she says.
"I want our neighbours in the North to know that we care about what is happening to their homeland and their way of life," says Cutting, who will travel to Inuvik in her Honda Civic Hybrid and then fly to Tuktoyaktuk and Old Crow.
In 2002 after reading the late Robert Hunter’s book, "2030: Confronting Thermageddon in Our Lifetime”, Cutting was shocked and wasn’t aware until then of the danger to our Planet. Determined to draw attention to “global heating” she went out and bought a hybrid car and drove across Canada to present a copy of the book to every Member of Parliament.
All along the way Dorothy spoke to Canadians about the need to take climate change seriously.
Sierra Club of Canada, co-sponsored Dorothy’s 2002 journey, and is with her again this year. “We see Dorothy’s trip as another way to get the message out about global heating and the melting of the polar ice cap. Dorothy’s courage and passion for future generations is inspiring. She knows we must act now to avoid an impending catastrophe and reverse the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” said Stephen Hazell, Acting Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada.
As global heating melts the polar icecap, Canada’s northern peoples face the disruption of their food sources and cultural systems. Habitat for northern species is under threat, and researchers predict that polar bears will become extinct by 2025 if global heating continues unabated. As NASA scientist James Hansen says they will, in effect, “be pushed off the planet”.
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Information: www.dorothycutting.ca
Contact:
To speak with Dorothy contact Sierra Club of Canada: Andrew Dumbrille, 613-862-1852
Sierra Club of Canada BC Chapter: Colin Campbell, 250-361-6476
Northern Climate Exchange: Katharine Sandiford, 867-668-8874
Salt Spring Island: Jan Slakov, 250-537-5251
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