Containing the spread of COVID-19 is overshadowed the anniversary of the climate march held in Montreal on Sept. 27.“The health crisis that we’re facing right now shares a lot in common with the climate crisis that we’re going to be facing the rest of our lives,” Keith Stewart, the Greenpeace Canada senior energy analyst, told Global News.The movement calling for action on climate change engulfed Montreal’s streets one year ago.
Half a million people — led by environmental activist Greta Thunberg — sent an urgent warning to law makers.“My message to all the politicians is the same.
To just listen to the science,” Thunberg said last year.Earlier this month, ice coverage in the Arctic sea shrank to its second lowest level since recordings.