On Oct. 1, I will be joining hundreds of seniors at the B.C. legislature in Victoria to call for immediate and serious action on climate change
When I started writing this column in December 2014, average annual CO2 was 399 ppm. Today, it is 422 ppm.
The Canadian Climate Institute notes: “Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average, and Canada’s Arctic is warming nearly four times as fast.” Yet as a leading climate action organization, 350.org, puts it : “It’s warming. It’s us. We’re sure. It’s bad. We can fix it.” We passed that benchmark in 1988 and seemed destined to reach a disastrous two to three degrees of heating by the end of the century — when most of today’s infants will likely still be alive.
Their agenda is straightforward, anchored in the theme that we need action on the climate emergency now: “Later is too late.”
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