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Fifteen-year-old Anna Brozek is teaching business leaders about sustainability. Starfish Canada named this Fall River, Nova Scotia student one of 2023’s Top 25 Environmentalists under 25 for her Planet in Mind website.
Experts suggest commercial poultry, especially factory-farmed and crowded in barns, is one culprit behind the rapid spread of avian flu. But one response by the Canadian government is to compensate farmers — paying the industry millions for bird slaughters — without requiring improved biosecurity against potential pathogens. Perhaps we should question this approach.
Perhaps some relief for climate anxiety can be found by imagining what the world would look like if we embraced these climate-friendly measures — in 2029.
The link between human rights, human health and an unhealthy planet is clear to us as physicians. The federal government must also make these connections.
Young voters are mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Those trying to pander to them — or worse, using them as stalking horses for their own priorities — would do well to remember that.