The United Nations’…

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a report on the forthcoming impacts of climate change. The consensus is clearly that, unless the world makes some drastic and immediate changes to combat the damage already done, hundreds of millions of people may be irreversibly in peril with drought, flooding, extreme heat and increased poverty in the decades to come.
We are seeing the changes in our climate on a daily basis - around the world, in Canada and in Ontario.
Clearly, concrete action has to be taken now.
The economic benefits of emerging sustainable energy (as opposed to propping up the dying carbon economy) are also clear. Economically, research indicates that direct financial benefits of rebates to citizens of Ontario, the success of BC's program and the endorsement of the approach by 2018 Nobel Prize winner in economics - are all positive indicators in this regard.
I want to see Ontario being a leader and moving towards - not backwards - in this effort.