Fossil fuels are driving climate change and causing skyrocketing levels of deady pollution and illness problems, published by a pand oon-lublished by Concerned Health Professionals of New York, compendium

Catastrophic damage caused by climate change is rapidly escalating in B.C. Since 2016, wildfires have burned an area far larger than Vancouver Island-decimating timber resources, damaging the tourism and industries, and impairing air qualityand public health.

In 2021, a heat dome killed more than 500 BCers and a billion sea creatures. This was immediately followed by a wildfire season that cost $800 million to fight and left the town of lytton in ashes. Months later, an atmospheric river triggered record flooding–destroying homes, dykes, highways, railways and bridges that will cost many billions to rebuild.

It’s getting worse. Last year was the most destructive wildfire season in B.C. history–burning an area 10 times the long-term annual average. More than 30,000 people were forced to evacuate, hundreds of homes and structures were lost, and a vast number of Noth Americans faced health risk from our smoke.

Temperature records are once again being broken this summer. and another damaging fire season is likely to extend into fall.