{"id":55193,"date":"2020-10-02T08:11:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55193"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:11:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:11:36","slug":"bc-needs-a-wartime-approach-to-the-climate-emergency-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55193","title":{"rendered":"BC Needs a \u2018Wartime Approach\u2019 to the Climate Emergency. And Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BC Needs a \u2018Wartime Approach\u2019 to the Climate Emergency. And Now<\/a><\/h3>\n

The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can\u2019t dither another minute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren\u2019t doing enough to stop climate change.\u00a0Photo by Joshua Berson.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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All of us who heed the warnings of climate scientists are increasingly alarmed as we stare at the harrowing gap between what the science says is necessary and what our politics seems prepared to entertain. Despite decades of calls to action, our greenhouse gas emissions are not on a path to stave off a horrific future for our children and future generations.<\/p>\n

Case in point: The accompanying chart tracks British Columbia\u2019s emissions going back to the year 2000. What is evident is that, in the face of the defining challenge of our time, our politicians are not rising to the task at hand.<\/p>\n

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Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada: Tables IPCC Sector Canada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Let this deeply disturbing chart sink in. And then let us all agree \u2014 political leaders, civil servants, environmental organizations, academics and policy wonks, labour leaders, socially responsible business leaders \u2014 that what we have been doing is simply not working. We have run out the clock with distracting debates about incremental changes.<\/p>\n

But where it matters most \u2014 actual GHG emissions \u2014 we have accomplished precious little and have frequently slipped backwards. The most recent GHG data is from 2018, and B.C.\u2019s new\u00a0Clean BC climate<\/a> plan was only introduced late that year, so it may yet show some progress. But our track record leaves much to be desired.<\/p>\n

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BC Needs a \u2018Wartime Approach\u2019 to the Climate Emergency. And Now The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can\u2019t dither another minute. Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren\u2019t doing enough to stop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,13249,386,30232,23884],"class_list":["post-55193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-emergency","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-seth-klein","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55194,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55193\/revisions\/55194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}