Brea Perry

You know, we focus on a lot of different kinds of stress, work stress, economic stress.

But when we talk about relationships, we tend to talk about the positive things or we tend to tell people to avoid loneliness and social isolation, which is super important.

Don't get me wrong.

But we just rarely talk about kind of the downsides or the dark side of social networks or relationships.

So that's why I think this is kind of important.

Thank you.

It's been really fun to be here.

Thanks so much for having me, David.

Well, actually, really similar things to what people encounter.

So the heat dome here in B.C.

in 2021 actually was deadly for a lot of people.

As I'm sure you know, the town of Lytton burnt to the ground.

There were about 600 people that perished in that heat wave.

And it was similarly stressful for animals.

So everyone was feeling the heat out here.

We found really widespread effects of the heat wave on animals as well as plants.

Basically, any type of organism that couldn't get up and manage to escape it somehow really suffered.

All the other things living alongside the mussels on our coastline.

So any what we call marine invertebrates, so mussels, barnacles, oysters, things like that, because they live on our rocky coastline, right?

So they're basically sitting on this very exposed rocks.