Embracing the unknown cost of climate change – IRPP

February 9, 2022

At the onset of the pandemic, it was difficult to predict how the virus would impact our lives. We understood that hospitals were at risk of overflowing, and we knew we needed to prepare for that. There were also a million other things that we didn’t or couldn’t predict would happen due to COVID-19, but if we have learned anything, it’s to expect the unexpected. And we certainly have got better at it.

This virus is not the only existential threat that humanity currently faces. Climate change is here, and Canadians are seeing its disastrous effects. We collectively failed to address it before entire towns in Alberta and British Columbia were destroyed forest fires, before people died as a result of heat waves, and before neighbourhoods were transformed into shallow lakes. And the reality is, it’s only going to get worse from here.

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