From Other Environmental Groups (October)

NATIONAL

  1. Canada has pledged to plant 2 billion trees, and has pledged to protect crucial wildlife habitats and create new parks and conservation areas. For more information, go here.

  2. October 6—National Day of Action on Planetary Health. CAPE leads Canada’s first National Planetary Action Day with this letter to Prime Minister Carney.

  3. Suburban residents spend more on commuting than on housing. Forced to live in far-out, amenity-poor suburbs due to the high cost of urban homes, many Canadian families are reliant on vehicles. For the full story, go here.

Global

  1. Used Clothes Crisis. Fast fashion is one of the most underrated environmental problems in the world. The fast fashion industry is the second-biggest consumer of the earth’s water. Full story here.

  2. Trump denies human-caused climate change as part of his recent UN speech. Trump called climate science “the greatest con job perpetrated on the world” and referred to it as a “globalist concept”. For the full BBC story, go here.

  3. Geoengineering… future of fighting climate change? Or dangerous climate tampering? This is one of the most controversial areas of environmental research. Some think it might be the answer, but other experts believe it can cause irreversible environmental damage. For more, go here.

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