I want to cut my carbon emissions. Living in Canada's hinterlands doesn't make it easy

CBC Radio Specials48:59My Climate Project

This First Person column is written by Heather Kitching, a part-time CBC reporter and producer in Thunder Bay, Ont. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

Eighteen months ago, in the midst of the fall-out from the climate-themed satire film Don’t Look Up, I experienced what some people would call a climate epiphany — the moment where the gravity of the climate crisis hits you like a ton of carbon emissions.

Faced with the sobering reality that we have less than a decade left before we exhaust the remaining carbon budget to keep the planet under 1.5 degrees of warming, I was overcome by feelings of helplessness and impending doom. 

The only

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