We need to live up to our climate commitments, now

Now is not the time to retreat. Or to think we can fully 'adapt' to the extreme ravages of climate change. Or to think that we don't need to act urgently because we're a small slice of the problem. This is it.

Environment Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill. Deadly heat waves and other extreme weather events are already upon us. The adverse impacts will only grow in terms of economic activity, human health, and mortality, as well as its deleterious effects on the species that share the planet with us. Canada has to do much more. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHAWN MCCARTHY

July 17, 2023

I had the good fortune to be sitting by a Quebec lake on an early July day, one that scientists declared to have been the hottest day on Earth in the past 125,000 years.

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