How and Why Climate Change is Affecting New Brunswick

We can all play our part in solving climate change.Climate change is already affecting our physical and mental healthThe climate crisis is alreadyharming the most vulnerable in our society: the working poor, seniors, and single mothers to name a few who have fewer social and financial resources to protect themselves from extreme events like heat waves or floods. We all know someone affected by spring and winter flooding on the St. John River, or storm surges and erosion on our coasts. Heatwaves from Bathurst to St. Andrews are harming our health and crops. Power outages in winter and summer put our safety and food at risk.Extreme weather in New BrunswickFrom the recent record-breaking flooding along the St. John River, the 2017 Ice Storm, Hurricanes Arthur and Dorian, to the heat waves, drought and low river levels we’re seeing in the summer,we feel the effects of climate change in our communities.You can read about the impact extreme weather is having on New Brunswickers’ physical and...