Rural areas are harder hit by climate change. These communities are rising to the challenge [Video]

Mike Hole says he wants to be a part of the fight against climate change. But he says it’s not so easy for someone living in rural Canada. 

“Everywhere you hear about climate change and things that you can do to help slow it down or turn it around, it’s always seemed to be from a very city perspective,” said Hole, who lives in Boissevain, Man., with a population of around 2,000 people. 

“The things they come up with are very easy for somebody in a city to do, but very difficult for people in rural Canada to do.”

About 20 per cent of Canadians live in rural and remote parts of the country. And according to a report by the federal government released in 2023, rural Canadians are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. 

Some remote communities rely on ice roads that form only when the temperatures are cold enough, which are at risk from rising temperatures. Many rural and Indigenous communities …