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The climate mobilization in Canada, as I’ve written in previous columns, has yet to feel like a grand societal undertaking. Among the bold initiatives that would send such a signal a Youth Climate Corps.
As young people come to the end of a school year unlike any before, and those in their teens and early 20s wrestle with the prospects of a dismal job market, post-secondary institutions still reeling with post-pandemic realities and, looming over it all, the escalating climate crisis, now would be a very good time to offer an ambitious new opportunity for those looking for something hopeful and meaningful.
American presidents have long vied to echo John Kennedyâs âAsk not what your country can do for you.â The spirit of service, declared Ronald Reagan, âflows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation.â Bill Clinton created AmeriCorps. George H.W. Bush likened volunteer organizations to âa thousand points of light.â George W. Bush created the USA Freedom Corps. Barack Obama called on Americans to âground our politics in the notion of a common good.â
Their arguments are all the more compelling today in a bitterly divided America struggling with a pandemic.
Many aging Vietnam-era veterans attest to the sense of community that came with either involuntary military service or the alternative service routes that those who refused the draft opted for. Conscription came to an end in 1973, and in the years since, The New York Timesâ editorial board has several times called on the government to expand the opportunities for