Support for climate action is slipping as affordability issues seize public attention and populist politicians pounce. When we address them hand in hand, the two problems can help solve each other.
Thank you. I am an advocate with Basic Income Ottawa and attended a forum last weekend about a guaranteed living basic income, and the choices people would have if they were lifted above the poverty line. We also learned how family doctors have so much unpaid paperwork to do to help people get onto some form of assistance, yet society would be healthier if poor people’s health was not putting so many demands on the system because they cannot feed themselves or live in healthy accommodations, or have respiratory diseases from forest fire smoke. So yes, costs of global heating are making life unaffordable.
Canadians are polarized due to misinformation, lies and leaders who just do not care. Fortunately the world is on an irrevocable path of changes and we 40 million in Canada cannot stop it even though we are in the top 10 in the world of per capita emitters. While oil companies spend tens of million on misinformation and greenwashing, some just say it's part of a cycle, except the real science indicates it isn't.
If one reads or follows the news, how do you ignore, drought, floods, rising oceans, changes in migration, plants dying off or moving north to cooker climes, and insects moving up or into ares spreading diseases we have never been exposed to. Never mind vaccinated for. So as usual, it's a race for the bottom for Canadians.. then there is rising inequality due to the free market that was supposed to satisfy our every need. Hah! Poilievre like Smith Moe and Ford will lead back into the dark ages of polarizing politics where nothing matters except to reduce government. Well 40 years into reducing government, privatization and free markets, i just don't see how we have benefited our youth and younger families
Thank you. I am an advocate with Basic Income Ottawa and attended a forum last weekend about a guaranteed living basic income, and the choices people would have if they were lifted above the poverty line. We also learned how family doctors have so much unpaid paperwork to do to help people get onto some form of assistance, yet society would be healthier if poor people’s health was not putting so many demands on the system because they cannot feed themselves or live in healthy accommodations, or have respiratory diseases from forest fire smoke. So yes, costs of global heating are making life unaffordable.
Canadians are polarized due to misinformation, lies and leaders who just do not care. Fortunately the world is on an irrevocable path of changes and we 40 million in Canada cannot stop it even though we are in the top 10 in the world of per capita emitters. While oil companies spend tens of million on misinformation and greenwashing, some just say it's part of a cycle, except the real science indicates it isn't.
If one reads or follows the news, how do you ignore, drought, floods, rising oceans, changes in migration, plants dying off or moving north to cooker climes, and insects moving up or into ares spreading diseases we have never been exposed to. Never mind vaccinated for. So as usual, it's a race for the bottom for Canadians.. then there is rising inequality due to the free market that was supposed to satisfy our every need. Hah! Poilievre like Smith Moe and Ford will lead back into the dark ages of polarizing politics where nothing matters except to reduce government. Well 40 years into reducing government, privatization and free markets, i just don't see how we have benefited our youth and younger families