Lecturer argues COVID lessons apply to climate fight

Waterloo Engineering lecturer Nadine Ibrahim posed a compelling question in a recent opinion piece: can we use lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis to also set our resolve to tackle climate change?

Ibrahim, who holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, argues that the structural and behavioural changes forced by the global pandemic could pave the way towards a truly sustainable - and still prosperous - way of life.

"We have a golden opportunity to do it right when we do go back to a new normal, but that won’t happen without putting in the effort to make these changes now," she wrote. "It’s the proverbial necessity being the mother of invention."

Click here for her full column.