This Letter to the Editor was written by Ray Nakano and was published in the Globe & Mail website on August 1, 2023, in response to “B.C. hikers dramatically rescued by helicopter from forest fire” (July 27) and “Freeland calls on CRTC to fix cellular dead zones in wake of Nova Scotia flash flood” (July 28):

How much more forest do we want to burn up? How many more homes do we want to burn down? How many more people do we want to die from heat waves?

How many more roads, bridges and homes do we want to wash away? How many more people do we want to drown from floods?

Keep producing and burning fossil fuels and see how bad it will get. It will likely be worse than we can imagine, unless we stop.

When we value people’s lives and homes more than fossil fuel profit, then we may have a chance to change our dire situation.

Ray Nakano Toronto