‘I need us to get angry’: a burning plea caps off panel discussion on climate change in St. John's | SaltWire

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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — It was a polite panel discussion on climate change, held to launch the annual Vital Signs report by Memorial University’s Harris Centre, ...

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Joining him were journalist Ashley Fitzpatrick, Edgewise Environmental CEO Ashley Noseworthy, Western Environmental Centre of Newfoundland executive director Katie Temple and Labrador elder Stanley Oliver. The report this year focused on the impacts of climate change on Newfoundland and Labrador, and as Fitzpatrick pointed out, every vignette and graph in the document has a deep well of research behind it.• Communities in general are doing little to prepare for climate change. About one in four town councils in the province have taken any actions to address it, and 10 per cent have not even discussed it.

• As of the summer of 2022, there were 439 electric vehicles in the province, and 1,659 hybrid vehicles, up from 41 and 464 respectively in 2016.

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