Mitigation failure: slip-sliding away

As things worsen and slip-sliding away gets impossible, real mitigation will eventually be considered and then—if the disaster chaos doesn’t make it impossible—implemented. But not bending the curve early enough will mean doing the right thing will happen far too late.

Forest fires in Alberta in 2023. This mitigation failure and regression is happening as the climate science is telling us that climate change is accelerating. Climate change is now an existential crisis, writes Bill Henderson.Photograph courtesy of Cpl. Marc-André Leclerc, DND

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

October 23, 2024

GIBSONS, B.C.—"The planet is warming at a record pace. So why are many companies retreating from their climate targets?" read the headline of a recent CBC article.

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