A week of weather-related destruction has Quesnel Mayor Bob Simpson calling for the province to rethink their response to climate change and emergency planning.
Simpson says the province-wide flooding that led to the mass destruction of infrastructure is the direct result of our petrochemical economy.
He says the massive damage caused by a single weather event should serve as a wake-up call to radically rethink BC’s approach to climate change.
In a letter from this morning, Simpson says we need to look at solutions that immediately address climate change, not ones for 2030.
That same letter calls for an improved, integrated, provincial emergency response system which includes mitigation planning as well as response.
He says the province must work directly with community-level organizations to develop a plan to better equip local governments to create climate change initiatives.
Currently, the majority of local governments cannot afford to develop or build adequate infrastructure to deal with the impacts of climate change.
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