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Last week, over 400 Olympic athletes from all over the Earth signed a letter to the new International Olympic Committee (IOC) president. These elite athletes want the Olympic leadership to make climate their number-one priority.
“Seeing the changes around the world is something that I’m very scared of, and it’s something that is really affecting me and the sport I dearly love,” Marquis, who chairs the Canadian Olympic Committee’s athletes’ commission, said in an interview with CBC Sports.
The Olympic athletes are requesting a meeting with the new president, and for that person to strengthen the IOC’s commitments to “swiftly cut carbon emissions.” They also call for the IOC to “set a standard” when it comes to “high-polluting sponsorships.”
Good to know these elite athletes are not only physically superior, but that their knowledge of environmental justice is on par also. It’s pretty much a no brainer, and yet, climate change deniers are still amongst us.
