Last year’s heat dome was the worst weather disaster in Canadian history, killing 619 people within just one week.
In Central Europe, the heat wave’s record temperatures soared above 40C and claimed more than 1,000 lives in Portugal alone.
“It’s not our planet itself: it will orbit the sun long after we’re gone,” said climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe. “What’s at stake is literally us.”
On World Health Day in April, Doctors for Planetary Health-West Coast (D4PH) issued a report titled “CODE RED for British Columbia: Time to declare a climate and ecological emergency and make peace with nature.”
