Opinion: Climate change deepening B.C.’s cost of living crisis

With a provincial election looming, pollsters are trying to tease out the public mood and the issues that might dominate at the ballot box. By significant margins, the top three issues on the minds of British Columbians are cost of living (64 per cent), health care (51 percent) and housing affordability (41 percent), according to polling by the Angus Reid Institute. Meanwhile, climate change and the environment have fallen from being identified as a top issue by 30 per cent of British Columbians during the 2020 election, to being one for just 18 per cent.

Climate change gets lumped in with “the environment,” which seems logical enough. After all,

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