Yesterday, I saw a post from a Dutch antiwar organization: Geen Bommen maar bomen. “Not bombs; trees instead.” I love it. Today, I saw a campaign from MCC: “bread, not bombs.” So I wrote adapted their letter to write to the prime minister et al.: Sure, money is important, but even more crucial is air to breathe and food to eat. War makes money for a tiny fragment of human population, but for the vast majority, war means displacement, loss, deprivation and at worst death. Even for those far away from war, like here in Canada, every bomb that drops leaves not only a crater in some distant soil but also further deepens the desperate carbon crisis we are in, which will exact its retribution faster and faster in wildfires, droughts and floods. That is why I am writing to you today. Canadians did not vote for war in the 2025 election. War does not lead to security. How could the hunger, displacement, and worsening impacts of climate change lead to sec...
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so glad that you didn't pick something easy to remember, like 'karlaincameroon' or something crazy like that!
You see, I wouldn't want to do what everyone else is doing--even if it is alliterative, which makes it almost too much to resist.