Elizabeth Rose, 15, of Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario wants Canada to declare a national climate emergency and she's written to her MP about it. She says she's worried about her future if the government doesn't act now. Photo: Kate Bueckert / CBC
Elizabeth Rose, 15, of Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario wants Canada to declare a national climate emergency and she’s written to her MP about it. She says she’s worried about her future if the government doesn’t act now. Photo: Kate Bueckert / CBC

21 May 2019 (CBC News) – A Kitchener teenager is urging the federal government to declare a national climate emergency.

Elizabeth Rose wrote a letter to her member of parliament, Raj Saini, asking elected officials to support a motion to declare a climate emergency on behalf of children in Canada.

In the letter, the 15-year-old wrote that she will not be able to celebrate her 75th birthday if the county doesn’t take action to address climate change.

“For people who are older in this world, it’s not exactly something that will have as big of an impact on them as young people, because young people have to live in the world that is affected by climate change,” Rose said in an interview with CBC Kitchener-Waterloo. [more]

Kitchener teen calls on Canada to declare national climate emergency