By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer \u201cClimate change is a crisis we caused together, and a responsibility we all share, together. To reject that responsibility would be careless, reckless, perhaps even sinful,\u201d former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said at The Shared Air Summit in 2007. \u201cThe earth isn’t ours \u2013 if it belongs to anyone, it belongs to our children. And they are counting on us. So it’s important we act.\u201d McGuinty distilled climate change into a simple yet urgent warning as he unveiled the government\u2019s first climate plan long after the province had been tested by disaster after disaster: Hurricane Hazel\u2019s deadly floods in 1954, the 1971 Great Lakes blizzard, the destruction of Winisk in 1986 and the crippling ice storm of 1998\u2014early glimpses of a… <\/p>\n
By Anushka Yadav, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Pointer \u201cClimate change is a crisis we caused together, and a responsibility we all share, together. To reject that responsibility would be careless, reckless, perhaps even sinful,\u201d former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said at The Shared Air Summit in 2007. \u201cThe earth isn’t ours \u2013 if it belongs to anyone, it belongs to our children. And they are counting on us. So it’s important we act.\u201d McGuinty distilled climate change into a simple yet urgent warning as he unveiled the government\u2019s first climate plan long after the province had been tested by disaster after disaster: Hurricane Hazel\u2019s deadly floods in 1954, the 1971 Great Lakes blizzard, the destruction of Winisk in 1986 and the crippling ice storm of 1998\u2014early glimpses of a... <\/p>\n