{"id":55496,"date":"2020-11-02T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55496"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:07:29","slug":"in-the-war-on-climate-change-the-bc-election-was-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55496","title":{"rendered":"In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust<\/a><\/h3>\n

But the Sustainabiliteens and other youth committed to radical change will never give up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Youth on strike for the climate in Vancouver, March 2019.\u00a0Photo by Jackie Dives.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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For high school students and climate activists like us, British Columbia\u2019s recent election wasn\u2019t just about politics. It was about our futures: the 10 or so years we have left to prevent the worst of the global climate crisis. That doesn\u2019t sound so long when you think of it as two or three election cycles.<\/p>\n

We are both organizers with Sustainabiliteens, Metro Vancouver\u2019s youth climate strike movement. We worked on campaigns this election because we believe in the power of political organizing to create change. We spent countless hours canvassing, flyering and phone banking \u2014 and now we have a chance to reflect on what the results mean for our generation and the future of the province.<\/p>\n

First of all, this power-grab election should never have been called in the first place. We\u2019re in the middle of a pandemic, not to mention a looming climate crisis \u2014 speaking of which, are we crazy or does the NDP\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0want to go ahead with Site C?<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, an NDP majority wasn\u2019t the result we wanted. Premier John Horgan found popularity not in spite of the BC Greens holding him accountable, but because of them. Honestly, we\u2019re scared for what Horgan will do with absolute power. As we should be, considering his track record on\u00a0climate action<\/a>, as well as\u00a0Indigenous sovereignty<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust But the Sustainabiliteens and other youth committed to radical change will never give up. Youth on strike for the climate in Vancouver, March 2019.\u00a0Photo by Jackie Dives. For high school students and climate activists like us, British Columbia\u2019s recent election wasn\u2019t just about […]<\/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":[4,6],"tags":[94,141,30530,30528,30529,23884],"class_list":["post-55496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-strike-canada","tag-kate-sheardown","tag-lilah-williamson","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55496","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=55496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55497,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55496\/revisions\/55497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}