Canada Must Stand Firm Against Militaristic Endeavours

Climate impacts onslaught by military funding

By: Maya Barillas Mohan, Staff Writer The Climate Clock is a live tool that counts down time until the carbon budget is depleted. The carbon budget allots a specific amount of carbon emissions before global warming exceeds 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels. Once the world exceeds this average temperature, impacts like extreme weather will extend to “breakdowns of major ocean circulation systems,” among plenty other  incredibly destructive and unavoidable harms to nature and, by extension, humanity. Unfortunately, governmental policies prioritize warfare over the dire environmental situation. Human activities need to be wrangled into a net-zero figure. This would mean the amount…

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