Seth Klein is the team lead and director of strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank. He is now a freelance policy consultant, speaker, researcher and writer, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Seth is an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s urban studies program and remains a research associate with the CCPA’s B.C. office.
I am a political optimist by nature. I keep wanting to believe our federal government has turned a corner — that it has seen the light on the climate emergency and is ready to shift into high gear, writes columnist Seth Klein.
We face a climate emergency — that is the existential threat of our time that must be decisively tackled in the three-year life of this agreement. And this agreement does not spell out an emergency plan, writes columnist Seth Klein.
"We pride ourselves on being climate leaders, yet we have been highly resistant to tackling our role as global producers of fossil fuels," writes Seth Klein.
What would be the best speech from the throne Canadians could hear later this month? Here's an imaginary take on one that would put Canada on a path to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy right away.
