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On the climate change portfolio, everyone (except for the climate change scientists) is guilty. Had our efforts to fight climate change took place 10 - 12 years ago, the world would not have warmed up by as much as it has now.
On a more personal and relatable level, I have never experience an excessive heat event like the 2021 heat dome until that year. Similarly, I don't recall there having been as many heatwave days that are as long or at hot as the summers in 2022 or 2023 before 2020 or 2021.
I also do not recall nearly as many wildfire smoke days here in Vancouver before the pandemic. PM2.5 used to be a term that I used to make fun of Beijing or New Delhi's air quality, and now we regularly make it to the top of the list as having the most polluted air in the world.
And I haven't even mentioned the floods yets.
So I'd say that if we had started taking climate change action 10 - 12 years earlier than we have, we might have been able to postpone the 2021 heat dome, the hot summers and wildfire seasons in 2022 and 2023 until another 5 - 10 years later, maybe?
You do realize how much economic losses (and loss of lives) we have suffered as a result of climate change in the past 3 years, right?
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