10 things we learned about the climate crisis from the documentary ‘The Fight For Tomorrow’
Posted March 31, 2021 11:48 am.
Megan Robinson’s eye-opening VeraCity documentary The Fight For Tomorrow made it clear that the climate crisis isn’t somebody else’s problem.
The film, which you can watch below, explores the impact of the climate crisis on Canada’s largest cities and how eight Canadians are trying to change the course of our future.
Here’s 10 things we learned from the documentary about how the climate crisis affects Canadians, and the role Canadians play in harming and healing the earth.
1) There are 35 million cars in Canada, close to one for every person.
2) In Toronto alone, over 1/3 of emissions come from cars.
3) Canada’s energy consumption is five times higher per capita than the world average.
4) Canada’s electricity consumption is almost six times greater per capita than any other country.
5) Canadians produce more garbage per person than anyone else on the planet.
6) For the past 75 years, Canada’s average temperature has risen more than double the global rate.
7) Flooding is the number one cost to Canada in terms of the expression of climate change and extreme weather, with the average cost of a flooded basement pegged around $43,000.
8) Canada is expected to spend over $900 million each year on natural disaster relief with 75 per cent of that cost going towards flooding.
9) 2020 saw the hottest July ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.
10) 2018 was British Columbia’s worst fire season on record and six of the province’s 10 biggest wildfires have occurred in the last 20 years.
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