14 Jun 2025
Nature bites some more
I recently saw photos from a friend who works in a large overseas city. She was hit with the second flood in as many months and this time the interior of her car was awash. I thought it ironic that the very cars putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere were now being damaged or destroyed by floods or fires worsened by climate change. I had a similar sensation watching the evacuations of thousands of people from northern Canada as they escaped from more than 200 out of control wildfires. They were fleeing in cars, trucks, aircraft and boats, all burning fossil fuels and adding to the climate change that was making forest fires worse. As long as we continue to burn fossil fuels for 80 per cent of our energy demand we will make our climate more dangerous, put our economy at greater risk and choke on hazardous smoke from fires.