Older adults, particularly women, are disproportionately affected by extreme weather events and food insecurity caused by climate change. Yet even with newer guidance calling for the inclusions of older adults in climate change planning, older women continue to be omitted from the climate change discourse.

"The talk" can no longer just be about the birds and the bees, said Rachel Giese, Toronto-based author of "Boys: What It Means To Become a Man." Parents need to do away with such euphemisms and bring the public discourse about gender-based power dynamics into their homes, she said, because failing to address the thorny issues surrounding sex would be doing a disservice to their children — particularly, their sons.