02/17/2025
Do you remember Abbotsford in 2021?
In November 2021, Abbotsford, British Columbia, became the epicenter of one of Canada’s most devastating flooding disasters. The Nooksack River overflowed, breaching its d**e and sending a catastrophic wave of floodwater straight into Sumas Prairie—one of the province’s most vital agricultural regions.
🚨 This was not just a flood. It was a wake-up call. 🚨
It was an absolute surreal feeling parking on the side of the road, treading through the chest deep water with a canoe to cross the highway that was submerged under water to canoe across the farm land in order to capture these photos.
Entire farms were swallowed by the rising waters, leaving tens of thousands of animals trapped with no way to escape. Over 640,000 chickens, 12,000 pigs, and 420 cows drowned in the disaster. These were not just numbers; they were living beings—helpless, terrified, and left to suffer because of a climate crisis we continue to ignore. 💔
🔥 Climate change is here, and it’s not waiting for us to catch up. Extreme weather events, floods, wildfire and heatwaves are becoming more frequent and more destructive. Yet, we continue to build in high-risk areas, expand industrial farming, and disregard the warnings from scientists.
💡 The time to act is now. 💡
We must demand climate action. We must protect our environment before more lives—both human and animal—are lost. We cannot allow the next disaster to be met with the same shock, the same inaction, and the same tragic loss.
⚠️ We were warned. Let’s stop pretending we weren’t.
