Ms. Que Banh<p>Blair Feltmate, director of the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation at the University of Waterloo, said discussion is not enough. He said in an interview Wednesday that all levels of government need to treat escalating <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> related <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaturalDisasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalDisasters</span></a> as the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crisis</span></a> they are and quickly enact mitigation strategies before things get worse.</p><p>"This is a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RedAlert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedAlert</span></a> type of situation. Not only is there an enormously high degree of risk, we're realizing that risk is only going to increase. As bad as things are now with floods, the wildfires and the extreme heat events, it's going to get worse. Climate change is irreversible," he said.</p><p>As of Wednesday, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> had about 430 ongoing <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a>, with 107 of them having started within the previous 24 hours, and residents from about 470 properties had been forced to evacuate.</p><p>In <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Alberta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alberta</span></a>, wildfire officials say an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 people have evacuated the community of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Jasper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jasper</span></a> since an order was issued Monday night. About 180 wildfires were burning across Alberta as of late Wednesday, and about one-third of them were considered out of control.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/canada-s-premiers-forced-to-confront-escalating-climate-change-related-disasters-1.7274886" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia</span><span class="invisible">/canada-s-premiers-forced-to-confront-escalating-climate-change-related-disasters-1.7274886</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ABpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ABpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>