Canadians Are Paying The Cost Of Climate Change. Will Big Oil? (Blog)
These floods graphically illustrate some of the costs of climate change. It costs an average of $40,000 to repair a flooded basement, but there is also a human cost in the form of stress and lost work time.
All this is happening as the provincial government in Ontario seems to be doing all it can to make the problem worse. After gutting the province’s greenhouse gas-reduction plan last fall, Premier Doug Ford’s first budget cut funding to conservation authorities for flood prevention in half. It also cancelled the tree-planting program (trees also help prevent floods by helping rain filter into the soil rather than flow directly into streams and rivers).