FREDERICTON — Warming temperatures, rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening communities up and down New Brunswick, but with just over one week ...
FREDERICTON — Warming temperatures, rising sea levels and coastal erosion are threatening communities up and down New Brunswick , but with just over one week to the provincial election, some voters say the topic of climate change hasn't been given enough attention during the campaign.
But in the recent debate with all three main party leaders on stage, not one question was about climate. "I was stunned by the climate silence," he said. Andrew Black is mayor of Tantramar, a municipality located close to the Bay of Fundy and the Chignecto Isthmus — a land link connecting New Brunswick with Nova Scotia. The isthmus is particularly vulnerable to climate change, he said, and rising seas will potentially flood the area and destroy homes and infrastructure. The floodwater could salinate arable farmland and make it unusable for generations, he added.
"They don't want to be seen as prophets of the apocalypse," he said. "They want to keep a positive, upbeat message. But the reality is, our climate is changing in real time, and we have to adapt every sector of our economy, every system of our economy." The Liberal platform calls for reviewing and updating the province's emergency preparedness to deal with the increasing number of extreme climate-change-related weather events, and implementing a coastal erosion plan to protect communities.
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