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Environment committee  What really worries us as doctors.... I've worked with humanitarian organizations, and I had the honour of helping to produce the first brief between Doctors Without Borders and the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change. We worry about the limits of adaptation. What I'm d

May 17th, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Courtney Howard

Environment committee  Sure. To take a local example that can be extrapolated, last year we flew elders from around the territory down and sat around a map of the NWT and had people draw where different animals have gone in their lifetimes. We ended up with, “The beavers used to be here and now they'r

May 17th, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Courtney Howard

Environment committee  It's true.

May 17th, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Courtney Howard

Environment committee  Thanks. I am speaking to you from a house in Yellowknife's Dene territory that is atop permafrost. This part of the world is already 2.5°C warmer than it was when an 80-year-old elder was born. We're deep into adaptation. We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on our foundat

May 17th, 2021Committee meeting

Dr. Courtney Howard