Wake up: the polycrisis is an emergency

Declare an emergency, get business out of government, and let progressives organize our future so that we can have a future. The year 2030 is just four years away and we have a lot of emissions to lose and a lot of changes that need to be made.

The oilsands in Fort McMurray, Alta., in 2008. The biggest failure of government in our times has unquestionably been climate change mitigation, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

March 26, 2026

GIBSONS, B.C.—I woke up on a beautiful, sunny spring day to the nightmare we now all face every morning: what has United States President Donald Trump done to further imperil our world? So, I went out in the sun to our neighbour’s little park to rebuild the inukshuks, a ...

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