For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Merge them. Create the climate corps and allocate federal funding to that branch of military operation, that’s how you actually get funding, and it makes sense because climate shift is a security threat as much as anything else. Also, given how shit is turning south of the border, this is the most comfortable I’ve ever been with more military spending. I’m just saying this doesn’t have to be an either-or dichotomy.