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This funding will jump-start the work required to improve disaster response, protect Canadians from extreme heat and health effects, and top up the disaster mitigation and adaptation fund. The strategy also calls for embedding climate change in all decisions to locate, plan, design, manage, adapt, operate and maintain infrastructure systems across their lifecycle.

Maclean’s Magazine cover story in its August 2022 edition, was entitled “The Big Burn—How British Columbia is learning to live with relentless wildfires”—and based on its factual anecdotal evidence, it read like a horror story. Researched and written by Jason McBride, its subtitle was “Burned Out—Wildfires in British Columbia are hotter, bigger, and deadlier than ever. They are also a frightening, elemental fact of everyday life—Portrait of a Province in Flames.” This has to change!

While there is much we can do as individuals to mitigate irreparable damage to the environment, it is also important that leadership be shown, that concrete steps be taken on a broad scale, and that we collectively support preservation of this earth for those who will follow us.

References: Canada unveils new climate adaptation strategy, CBC News November 24, 2022

Contact: Chase Environmental Action Society, PO Box 1698, 462 Maple Place, Chase, BC V0E 1M0 and ChaseEAS2019@gmail.com

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