Scientists, Indigenous leaders send dire warnings about climate crisis

More than 100 scientists, Indigenous leaders and community members are in Vancouver to discuss the latest dire warnings about the climate crisis. The climate action conference is being organized by the First Nations Summit – an Indigenous political organization. “I want to say to all Indigenous people on the coast in British Columbia or in any area that are effected by the ocean, you can’t wait to prepare,” said Hugh Braker, executive member of the FNS. “You have to prepare now you should be getting ready now for the effects of sea level rise if it really does melt in the next century its going up seven metres and its accelerating the melt is accelerating.” There are few people at the event who haven’t been following the melting ice in the north, warming ocean temperatures and rising sea levels. But the timing of the conference couldn’t have been better. With Canada engulfed in a federal election around its economic battle with the United States, the two front runners to form the next government have both promised to fast track natural resource projects including pipelines. Fossil fuels are the leading cause of the climate crisis. Keynote speaker David Suzuki says mass extinctions are already taking place. “Another million species are on the brink of extinction,” Suzuki told the conference. “Earth has entered a sixth period of mass extinction and we know the cause which is us. We are the only species with the intelligence to foresee our own demise as a species the tragedy is that we now know we are threatening our own survival and we know how to avoid the current threat but are unable to take the steps.” Continue Reading