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Children especially vulnerable to climate change, expert witness says
Dr. Elizabeth Pinsky said children face higher heat, pollution and mental health risks as 15 young plaintiffs argue Canada’s emissions policy violates their rights.
- On Thursday, Harvard Medical School pediatrician Elizabeth Pinsky testified in Federal Court in Vancouver that children face disproportionate climate risks due to immature thermoregulation and higher air pollution exposure.
- The trial, which opened Monday, features 15 young plaintiffs arguing that federal legislation violates their constitutional rights, with lawyer Catherine Boies Parker stating the case hinges on whether the government is "constitutionally required to stop making it worse."
- Pinsky explained "solastalgia" as "the experience of feeling homesick when you are at home, but home has changed around you," and described a "temporal reality" where younger people are "simply at increased risk" from climate hazards.
- Earlier Thursday, Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson testified Canada could shift to full renewable energy by 2050, reducing energy use by 60 per cent, while Ottawa's lawyers will cross-examine Pinsky on Friday.
- As climate change worsens, health harms for children will increase, Pinsky testified, stating there is "no question left in the medical literature" about the reality of these risks.
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