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Arno Kopecky
2026 Derek Lundy Memorial Event
Mark Carney and the Climate Crisis: What Went Wrong?
ArtSpring 7:30pm September 26th
Tickets Available HERE
Can we take meaningful action on climate change without damaging our economy?
Prime Minister Mark Carney's current policies seem to represent a major pivot from his earlier, pre-political concerns about climate change. While he previously championed strict regulations, carbon taxes, and mandated phase-outs globally, his government's new strategy—outlined in his "Forward Guidance" framework—deliberately prioritizes economic affordability, national unity, and energy expansion.
For more than two decades, journalist and author Aron Kopecky has examined the difficult trade-offs that define our relationship with nature. Kopecky has travelled the globe reporting from the front lines of environmental change, asking uncomfortable questions about conservation, climate change, Indigenous rights, and energy. Rather than offering easy answers, he challenges us to think more deeply about what it really means to live sustainably.
Arno Kopecky is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, The Guardian, The Narwhal, The Tyee, and many other publications. In June, he won a 2026 National Magazine Award for, “A Son, a Scientist, and the Secret of Bioluminescence” published in The Walrus. His acclaimed books, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma (ECW Press, 2021) and The Oil Man and the Sea (Douglas & McIntyre, 2013) blend vivid storytelling, investigative reporting and personal experience to explore some of today’s urgent environmental debates.
Please join the Salt Spring Forum in welcoming Arno Kopecky for the 2nd annual Derek Lundy Memorial Event, where we will discuss the complex political and ethical dilemmas raised by a global ecological crisis.
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