We have just 12 years to make massive and unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels, the United Nation's climate science body said in a monumental report released in October 2018.
A report from Environment Canada released in April 2019 revealed that Canada is warming faster than the world average from human-caused climate change, and global efforts to cut carbon emissions can now only mitigate how much damage is expected to be done.
Other planet-wide concerns dominate headlines – islands of plastic, shrinking forests, disappearing species.
Think globally, act locally. But act now.