Like Homer’s Penelope, the elected officials of Montreal’s most populous borough weave with one hand and undo their work with the other.
Last Tuesday, residents seduced by the promise of “additional amounts [qui] were set aside for greening projects and the fight against heat islands moved to the NDG Cultural Center to hear Mayors Katahwa and Plante speak on ecological transition and housing.
Just last month, the borough approved an expenditure of 5 million for the destruction of a cool island, a natural grass sports field, in order to build a heat island, a synthetic multi-sport field, in a neighborhood park. frequented by residents, largely tenants of buildings built in the middle of the last century, and overheated during heat waves.
If the fight against climate change is an odyssey, elected officials will not get us there by throwing money around without consideration for the consequences of their decisions.
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