By Letter to the Editor on November 13, 2021.
Editor:
 Re: COP26’s shortcomings, etcetera.
As particular person consumers, far too Many people nonetheless recklessly behave As if throwing non-biodegradable garbage down a darkish chute, or pollution flushed down relaxation room/sink drainage pipes or emitted out of elevated exhaust pipes or spewed from sky-extreme jet engines And actually tall smoke stacks – even The Most very important poisonous-contaminant spills in not often visited wilderness – can A method or The completely different be safely absorbed into the air, water, and land (i.e. out of sight, out of thoughts).
It’s like We’re inconsequentially allotting of that waste Proper into a black-hole singularity, By which it’s compressed into nofactor.Â
If potential, every construction ought to independently harvest photo voltaic power, A minimal of as an emergency power storage system.
There already are fossil-gasoline-powered generator methods that work together as quickly as the common electrical-grid circulate will get reduce off, so why not use clear photo voltaic power Rather than the very Quaint and carbon intensive means?
Furthermore, particularly when contemplating most people’ very weak over-reliance on electricality, It Will not be prudent to have every construction’s complete electricality current Counting on exterior power strains That are weak to being crippled by unexpected occasions, Notably climate storms of unprecedented magnitude.
In the meantime, it seems to me that if the common availability of inexperienced-power options will come On the revenue-margin expense of conventional ‘power’ manufacturing corporations, one can anticipate formidable obstacles, collectively with the political and regulatory type.
If one factor notably conflicts with agency huge-revenue pursuits, even very progressive motions are significantly resisted, typically enough effectively. And, Really, there Shall be Individuals who will rebut the cas quickly aspt alcollectively, maybe solely on the illogic that if it was potential, it undoubtedly would have been patented and produced already and made A pair Of people very rich.
Frank Sterle Jr.  Â
White Rock, B.C.