Population Health

There is substantial research that emphasizes that the burden of climate change will be disproportionately felt by low-income and marginalized populations. [1,2] Much of the dominant discourse on climate change conceptualizes it as an “issue of North-South” relations in that the Global North is the primary driver of climate change while the Global South bears the impacts. [3]

While the importance of this dichotomy cannot be overstated, the focus here will be on the effects of climate change experienced by vulnerable populations within Canada to offer an introduction to the kinds of dynamics we are most likely to see in our future practice.