Catastrophic damage caused by climate change is rapidly escalating in B.C.
Since 2016, wildfires have burned an area far larger than Vancouver Island — decimating timber resources, damaging the tourism and wine industries, and impairing air quality and public health.
Temperature records are once again being broken this summer — and another damaging fire season is likely to extend into the fall.A growing number of governments now assert that fossil fuel companies causing climate change should pay, out of their soaring profits. For example, the City of Boulder, Colorado, has sued Big Oil companies for its costs from heat waves, wildfires and flooding — charging that the companies “knowingly and substantially contributed to the climate crisis by producing, promoting and selling a substantial portion of the fossil fuels that are causing and exacerbating climate change, while concealing and misrepresenting the dangers associated with their intended use.
• The state will assess the costs that climate change is imposing on public health, natural resources, flood preparedness, agriculture, housing, economic development, etc.
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