Young people are already on the front lines of the climate crisis. Canada can help them fight it.

Written By Peter Allan

Most young people know — and as driven home yet again by Monday’s IPCC report — the climate crisis is coming for them. Photo submitted.

By Seth Klein

Most young people know — and as driven home yet again by Monday’s IPCC report — the climate crisis is coming for them.

One way or another, on their terms or not, it's going to enlist them.

It won't ask their permission.

In the face of more frequent and severe extreme weather events, disrupted food and water systems, humanitarian crises, shattered infrastructure, threats to global security exacerbate by the “threat multiplier” that is the climate crisis, and economic and employment upheavals, the climate emergency will impact their lives in immeasurable ways. And they know it.

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