From here:

Please light a candle in your window every Monday evening this winter. You will be joining a community from over 345 organizations across the province to keep vigil for those people, plants, and animals that have lost their lives in heat domes, wildfires floods and mud slides this year.

Take a moment to honor the grief and eco-anxiety that lurks in many of our hearts.

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Turn that hope into action. By lighting a candle together, we will be lighting up the need for climate action.

To gain a little perspective, let’s compare candles to a modest 18 Watt LED light:

An 18 Watt LED light produces about 1300 lumens. A candle produces about 13 lumens. It takes 100 candles to produce the same amount of light as an 18 Watt LED bulb.

Pollutants produced by burning a candle can include (depending on the candle): toluene, benzyne, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, acrolein, naphthalene and, of course, the much-hated CO2.

So by all means ease your conscience for all the plants you’ve murdered. Light candles. Let your 13 lumens shine. Inhale deeply of the toluene and formaldehyde. As your brain fogs over, rejoice in the certain knowledge that you are playing your part in the community (have you noticed that every loosely connected ragtag bunch of eccentrics now constitutes a ‘community’) of 345 eco-befuddled, lumen-addled organisations across the province.