It’s time to act like climate change really is an emergency

We won’t stop using oil or gas tomorrow, but we do need to start using a lot less of it right now. Any time we build new energy infrastructure, it should be for improving energy and expanding renewable sources.

Young people participate in a climate rally on Parliament Hill in May. Scientists have pulled the fire alarm and yelled that the building is on fire and the youth climate strikers are in the streets searching for fire hoses and wrenches to uncork the hydrants, writes Christy Ferguson.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHRISTY FERGUSON

July 3, 2019

As the Canadian Parliament declared a national climate emergency on June 17, Greenpeace activists in the U.K. were showing the world what it looks like when you actually consider climate change to be an emergency. In a 12-day

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