Climate change is disabling. Its solutions shouldn’t be

, people across the globe fled wildfires with astonishing regularity. This year, the effects of rising global temperatures have continued unabated: El Nino aside,, John Vaillant’s book about the apocalyptic 2016 Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire, I wondered what it would be like to try to evacuate my disabled daughter under such conditions. I sometimes think about the problem of having to leave my home quickly, only to arrive somewhere inaccessible – an unfortunately plausible scenario.

Consider the following: The federal government, in introducing the 2021 Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, promised that a net-zero Canada will have an economy that “eitherin Canada, largely because of road transportation. In response, Canada has decided that reaching net zero involves getting most of us into electric vehicles . Significant strides have been made in securing EV battery manufacturing contracts in Canada – big plans are clearly afoot for our EV future.

Cobalt mining in the DRC is a notorious example of the disabling possibilities of net-zero policy. There is also a history there of colonial industrial violence spawned by a rapacious global appetite for resources. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the latex trade – also kindled by transportation innovation – led to the disabling mutilations and deaths of millions in the Congo Free State.. A closer look reveals an act light on enforcement and heavy on reporting.

The stocktake has been heralded by some as “the beginning of the end” for fossil fuels, but very little was said in the agreement about disability and climate-change action. The“to make COP28 the most accessible to date through inclusive, authentic engagement” – an improvement on COP26, when Israel’s energy ministerin her wheelchair – but the stocktake only mentions disability twice, with disabled persons cast as passive actors in the climate story. This falls a bit flat.

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