„Carney muss eine Spur auswählen“: Befürworter und Gegner sorgen sich um gemischte Signale von Liberalen auf fossilen Brennstoffen
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-has-to-pick-a-lane-advocates-and-opponents-worry-about-mixed-signals-from-liberals/article_0f6859cc-93f1-418d-a474-a89ce9792a2f.html
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I am *extremely* doubtful that he is going to do positive things for the oil and gas sector but I’m hoping I end up surprised. I just don’t see how he can with the Liberals track record and his own stated beliefs on the oil industry.
Man the media so desperately wants gotchas and yea or no answers to complicated questions so they can easily make viral headlines and non stop opinion pieces where they cast politicians into a stereotype
I think the issue is that those who support oil and gas want nothing but full unconditional support by Carney which just never was going to happen because he has to serve all Canadians and that would not represent what Canadians want. How I interpret these “mixed signals” is that the Liberals are trying to actually walk the line between recognizing the importance of oil and gas to the Canadian economy while also recognizing that the cash cow will run out and climate change is a major threat.
I don’t know if *Carney* needs to pick a lane, but certainly Cabinet needs to figure out from whose hymnbook they’re going to be singing from. I suppose that’s the concern with a caucus whose been used to power for a decade
I hope he doesn’t pick a lane, because it is not a binary choice. Canada could ban all oil production tomorrow and the world will continue emitting the same amount of CO2 it would other wise have. Saudi, USA, Guyana, Russia and others will happily fill the void left by Canadian oil producers.
If Canada helps households move away from natural gas and oil heating and ICE vehicles, that makes a difference. If we expand public transit, that makes a dent in CO2 emissions, if we expand the mix of renewables in our grid that makes a dent.
Canada should avoid burning fossil fuels, but it shouldn’t avoid producing them for other to burn.
I think “mixed signals” fairly accurately reflects where a lot of Canadians themselves are at on this issue.
I think most Canadians believe that climate change is real, is human caused, and is a dire threat, because all those things are basically factual. I think most Canadians want to do something about it, because it’s collective suicide not to.
I also think most Canadians don’t want to be adversely affected or inconvenienced by our response to climate change in any meaningful way, and will resist responses that do.
That effectively makes the majority of us political children, who want to smash our toys for fun and then get upset that our toys are broken.
Bottom line, I’ve lost any hope or faith I might’ve once had that humanity as a species can manage our way out of the climate crisis. Short of miracle technologies that make stopping and then reversing climate change easy and, probably, also profitable, we’re cooked, first figuratively than then, for some of us at least, probably literally.
So, hey, might as well party like it’s the end of the world, because that’s not too far from reality. At least it puts to bed the silliness that conservatives claim to care about government debt levels “because of future generations.” That canard still makes me chuckle.