Climate Crisis? What Climate Crisis?
By Andrew MacLeod /Today /The Tyee
BC United vows to scrap climate action plan, while Conservatives say there is no emergency.
As British Columbia emerges from its worst wildfire season on record and continues to recover from recent climate disasters, two of the province’s opposition parties are saying they would scrap the government’s climate action plan.
“Frankly I’m embarrassed for them,” said Peter McCartney, climate campaigner for the Wilderness Committee environmental advocacy group. “It should be disqualifying for anybody who wants to hold public office in a climate emergency to not understand the gravity of the situation and the real costs it is having for British Columbians in terms of dollars, homes and lives.”
On Wednesday the leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia, Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, released a statement saying he believes humans have an impact on the climate and that climate change is real, but that it is not a crisis.
“British Columbians are NOT facing an existential threat from our changing climate,” he said. “It isn’t a crisis. In fact, our changing climate is not the most pressing issue facing us in B.C. or around the world.”
There are just two Conservative MLAs in the legislature, but the party has been receiving similar support in polls to BC United, the former BC Liberal Party.
One of the main jobs of any government is to keep people safe, McCartney added, and to not have a climate plan is to fail on that priority.
The BC NDP government’s plan is more serious than those proposed by BC United and the Conservative Party of BC, but it still falls short, said McCartney, who was with the Frack Free BC alliance that protested outside the BC NDP’s convention last weekend. |Read more https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/24/What-Climate-Crisis/| thetyee.ca/News/2023/11/24/Wha…
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