Judge warns Ontario’s weak climate plans will ‘increase the risk of death’ for young people

By H.G. Watson | RICOCHET MEDIA | May 1, 2023

Sophia Mathur was just 11-years-old when Ecojustice reached out to her and asked if she might want to be involved in fighting the Ontario government in court.

The then pre-teen had grown up talking about environmental issues and climate change around the dinner table. By the time the environmental law charity had reached out to her, she was participating in Fridays for Future climate strikes — a global movement in which children don’t attend school on Fridays to demand better environmental policies — and talking about it on Twitter. It caught the eye of the lawyers at Ecojustice. “I was a little hesitant at first,” says Mathur. But after thinking it over, she decided it was worth fighting for.