Now that climate change is an accepted, if inconvenient, truth, how are we coping? David Suzuki takes a first-hand look at how climate change is affecting Canadians where it really hurts: in their ability to make a living.

Beginning his journey on the Prairies, David discovers how farmers are dealing with a tough situation, as shrinking glaciers wreak havoc with their water supply.

In British Columbia he comes face to face with a tiny deadly insect. Called the mountain pine beetle, it’s already swallowed B.C.’s trees for breakfast. Now it’s checking out Alberta’s forests for lunch, threatening, in both provinces, to make a dog’s dinner of the economy.

In the paradise of B.C.’s Okanagan Valley, warmer temperatures are providing lucrative opportunities for grape-growers. At the same time, they’re shrinking the Okanagan’s vulnerable water supply. But users of this increasingly prized resource are learning how to negotiate their way through their competing claims, hopefully to a solution.

David’s journey ends in the far north, where global warming is paving the way for new shipping routes. Sleepy ports are waking to the siren call of profits. Rumours of more jobs in a 21st century Klondike abound, as the vast mineral resources of the north, including gold, become accessible. What will all this really mean for workers, for Canada’s sovereignty, for traditional cultures and for our already fragile environment? Does it all add up to an uncertain future?