Opinion: Why the online outrage for spending $1 per resident to try to recover costs of dealing with impacts of climate change?
That figure is going to go up, since the city has to take steps to prevent future heat deaths, build stormwater systems that can handle atmospheric rivers, and water systems that can handle droughts. The city expects to spend $1 billon in the coming years to protect False Creek and other low-lying lands from flooding due to rising sea levels and storm surges fuelled by climate change.
Council was promptly attacked on social media for wasting taxpayer dollars. This is incredible: Vancouver taxpayers are currently spending about $75 per resident to deal with the impacts of climate change, but the online outrage is for spending $1 per resident to try to recover some of these costs and massive future costs resulting from fossil fuel pollution.
By the 1980s and ’90s, scientists at Shell, Exxon and other global fossil fuel companies had a detailed understanding of not just climate change but also the floods, sea level rise, heat waves, and other impacts that they were warned would result. The companies could have responded to this information by putting their considerable resources into developing alternatives.
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