BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 22, 2023
A recent article in Maclean’s magazine offered a description of a heatwave – and its consequences – in British Columbia that sounds like it came from a horror movie. Dealing with the climate havoc will be expensive, costing the country $100 billion a year, every year, the magazine reported. As we’re seeing more and more, these aren’t scare tactics. They are the reality of a planet that is rapidly warming. Data, and the reality of the devastation of wildfires in British Columbia, and Hawaii, should alarm us all. They should also spur more comprehensive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also building resilience to the environmental changes that we know are coming, and in some cases, are already here.