The climate election year

We need a wartime-style emergency-coalition government with a strong, unified, all-on-the-same-page approach to fight climate change.

A forest fire in Canada last summer. Stop pretending that climate mitigation is possible in political and economic status quo, and get to an emergency government that can do what we responsibly need to do, writes Bill Henderson. Photograph courtesy of Cpl. Marc-André Leclerc, DND

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

March 4, 2024

GIBSONS, B.C.—Climate change went off the charts in 2023. In 2024, half of the world’s people will vote in national elections, and there are elections in countries that have to be key in global attempts at effective mitigation. So it was a bit of a no-brainer to consider...

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