Climate crisis requires war-measures mentality, author tells Island summit

Battle-tested strategies are needed to tackle the war on climate change, a noted author told those in attendance at a recent environmental conference in Nanaimo.

Seth Klein gave the opening keynote presentation on Saturday, Sept. 13, at Nanaimo Climate Connections at Wellington Hall.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' B.C. office founding director, who penned A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency , made comparisons between changes from the Canadian government during the Second World War and the current climate crisis. While the crisis was once considered "a threat somewhere else, sometime in the future," Klein said, the 2021 heat dome which enveloped B.C. and damaging wildfires in recent years have brought it close to home.

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