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Youths tell trial of climate change toll, from anxiety to flood and heat impacts
The 13-year-old urged leaders to act faster on climate change after experiencing floods, wildfires and smoke, saying the crisis is already shaping daily life.
- On Monday, 15 youth plaintiffs opened Canada's first youth-led climate trial in Vancouver, arguing federal legislation violates their constitutional rights by continuing greenhouse gas emissions trajectories.
- Plaintiff Sadie Vipond testified Tuesday about experiencing catastrophic 2013 Calgary floods that caused $6 billion in financial losses, fueling her anxiety about future climate events.
- Sophia Sidarous of the Metepenagiag First Nation told the court that rising temperatures prevent Indigenous cultural practices, threatening traditional foods like salmon and moose and medicinal chaga fungus.
- Climate science professor Kirsten Zickfeld from Simon Fraser University testified that global carbon emissions must be reduced to keep warming 'around 1.5 degrees' and 'well below' two degrees Celsius.
- The trial, originally filed in 2019, is expected to continue through late November with closing arguments scheduled for February to determine if the Charter must protect youth from government actions.
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