MITIGATE DAMAGE

Re Insurance Claims From Posttropical Storm Fiona May Reach $700-million (Sept. 27): The damage in Eastern Canada is devastating. It follows on the heels of deadly and destructive heatwaves, wildfires and floods in other parts of Canada.

All these events are stimulated and made more serious by climate change. The cost of these disasters is in the billions of dollars, yet neither the cost in lives nor property seems to prod our governments to meaningful action on climate change. Instead we hear that Canada is considering backstopping insurance coverage for vulnerable property.

Neither Canada nor the provinces seem to have credible plans for a phased own of fossil fuel sand a transition to renewable energy by 2050, nor do they have operational plans for adaptation to climate risks. How much property must be destroyed, how many people must die, before our governments take the climate crisis more seriously?

Michael Healey Kelowna, B.C.