How Nova Scotia can move forward from 300 years of coal and fossil fuel extraction
No more coal, no more oil, keep the
carbon in the soil" chanted Halifax high school students and their
supporters outside Province House last Friday. They joined millions of
other students around the world striking from school on Fridays
protesting inaction on climate change, following the lead of Swedish
16-year-old Greta Thunberg and fuelled by a UN Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report.
Released last fall, the report said it would be necessary on a global
scale, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by the year 2030
and eliminate emissions completely by 2050 to prevent global warming
beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius.
carbon in the soil" chanted Halifax high school students and their
supporters outside Province House last Friday. They joined millions of
other students around the world striking from school on Fridays
protesting inaction on climate change, following the lead of Swedish
16-year-old Greta Thunberg and fuelled by a UN Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change report.
Released last fall, the report said it would be necessary on a global
scale, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by the year 2030
and eliminate emissions completely by 2050 to prevent global warming
beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius.
There are many implications to these findings, one of which is
that our carbon budget—how much carbon we can burn without missing
climate targets—no longer allows for building new fossil fuel
infrastructure and current projects must be phased out over the next few
decades. According to the report, failing to limit global warming will
have severe consequences: Warming by two degrees will force millions
from their homes due to extreme weather; entire island nations will be
submerged by rising seas.