AMELIA PENNEY-CROCKER As someone who’s been doing climate activism since I was 14, I’m often asked, “Are you still into that climate stuff?” as if it’s ...
Thousands, many with signs in hand, piled into Grand Parade for the climate strike in Halifax on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. - Nicole Munro / FileHurricane Lee to impact Atlantic Canada this weekend | SaltWireAs someone who’s been doing climate activism since I was 14, I’m often asked, “Are you still into that climate stuff?” as if it’s something I would just get over eventually. As if it would be only natural to give up and sink into the inevitability of our collective demise.
Nova Scotia isn’t the only place experiencing this either. A deadly hurricane swept Newfoundland, fires have decimated Hawaii, northern Canada is being evacuated and many more tragedies have occurred all over the world. I’ve had to turn off the news because everything that I’ve been imagining, and fearing since I was 14, is happening right in front of me.
Climate justice asks for those in power to do everything in their power for everyone. To shift how we think away from reducing emissions for a quota and toward the social change that needs to be made to address climate change. It means connecting climate change to overarching structures and fighting those structures.
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