As Canada deals with wildfires, droughts, heatwaves and the loss of old growth forests, the scope of environmental work needed is vast. Youth have always been at the forefront of social change, and the environmental movement is no different. To continue and grow their ambitious work, these youth leaders need funding.
If Canada’s energy, transportation, food security, building, and land use sectors adopt the massive changes required by the IPCC report, the country’s social impact sector will be forced to follow suit — whether it is ready or not.
As Kat Cadungog writes in this story, “until we can solve our in-house disputes…it will be difficult to mobilize at the scale and speed we need to to solve the climate crisis” — or any social crisis, for that matter.
