Huron County's acting medical officer of health is speaking out about climate change.
Dr. Maarten Bokhout said as a public health officer, he has witnessed many things that impact health, and those include flooding in parts of Ontario and the difficulties farmers have had with the weather over the last couple of years in getting crops planted, and then getting them harvested in the fall.
"I think there's a greater awareness out there that there really is something going on and also there have been some political decisions made, both here and south of the border, which suggest that climate change isn't as much of a problem as it really is," he said.
Dr. Maarten Bokhout, Huron County's Acting Medical Officer of Health (photo by Bob Montgomery)
Dr. Bokhout said he feels most people would agree the weather we've experienced in the last couple of years is not as predictable or consistent as it was five or 10 years ago.
The encouraging part of this is that there are things that all of us can do on an individual level to turn things around in time.
"I'm personally of the opinion that this kind of thing, you have to keep plugging away at it and I think gradually the message starts to get through and people have to start being more careful about what they using and what they're discarding," said Bokhout.
