Mark Carneys Umstellung auf fossile Brennstoffe verwirrt Klimaexperten und Wirtschaftsführer
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a0fe37-4d36-489b-95ce-9467ed02efe8
Mark Carneys Umstellung auf fossile Brennstoffe verwirrt Klimaexperten und Wirtschaftsführer
https://www.ft.com/content/e5a0fe37-4d36-489b-95ce-9467ed02efe8
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Trump appeasement. It’s in almost everything the Canadian government does publicly. Like Putin does to Trump,Trump does to Carney. Carney clears policy through Trump. Similarity, he is allowed to look independent once in a while for domestic consumption. It should be no mystery why Trump’s extreme actions get no criticism from Canada – as well as other western governments.
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It’s not really bewildering.
Carney is going to put the economy above virtually everything else, including climate initiatives.
In case anyone has lost the plot, Trump has severely destabilized the economy by attacking trade with bully tactics. We elected Carney under a two part plan, to build up Canada internally, and to drum up trade elsewhere as we attempt to USA-proof our economic interests.
And now some people are upset with Carney, perhaps four of their biggest gripes,
*Carney telling Canadians to brace for cuts to services.*
*Carney signing a trade deal with the UAE.*
*Carney being more friendly and open to trade with China.*
*Carney looking to exploit our oil and gas resources.*
Dudes and dudettes, I humbly submit to you that none of this should be bewildering. This is precisely what he was elected to do and he’s going hard in the paint.
Remember how dire things were pre-Carney? How serious people were taking economic disaster as bully Trump threatened to send us into a artificially created recession and annex our country?
And now we get report after report of **better than expected** economic metrics. Better than expected trade, better than expected job numbers.
I obviously can’t speak for anyone else, but to me Carney has thus far been a good to excellent war-time prime minister. The war being with the economic terrorist menace on our southern border.
Shouldn’t bewilder anyone, this isn’t a pivot this is exactly what he suggested in his book. Tie oil to carbon credits, suppressing externalities, allow profits to happen, but regulate so that it’s more profitable to invest in pro-social assets. He is using Public Choice Theory like Sausage Politics to onboard the climate change deniers onto a path towards ending oil. Before oil ends, oil will be used to end coal and charcoal and anything that’s even worse to be burning.
All tied into removing oil burning from our economy. We cannot address a global problem with only local solutions, part of the global solution has to be using oil to rid the world of worse energy sources while replacing oil with renewables.
This was all literally what he has said. He isn’t pro-oil, he is willing to let oil be the worst case scenario and is pro-LNG, which will replace oil, and pro-renewables.
The climate change people can’t recognize a global solution from thinking local because they are trapped in the legacy thinking of their position
It’s not bewildering at all and is a breath of fresh air from Canada’s Liberals. Trudeau’s climate goals were unrealistic and many of us called them out as „never going to happen“ from the start.
We are in a tight spot with a hostile United States threatening us with economic warfare and annexation. We have to concentrate on strengthening our economy in the short term or we may end up as an American colony striped of our mineral resources and fresh water to feed the American economy.
Good. No point crippling our economy for our 2% global greenhouse gas emissions. Us going to 0% wouldn’t fix climate change. Unilateral climate initiatives are a huge waste of resources and will not achieve meaningful greenhouse gas reductions.
It is a pivot, but climate has not disappeared completely. The previous government took an approach that involved driving clean tech, regulating emissions, and using aspirational goals. The current government is in a very different economy, so they are shifting to aligning policies with countries we do trade with. Being able to show climate change efforts will open access to markets in Europe and Asia for Canadian companies.
Aligning with carbon pricing and cap and trade axross jurisdictions are common and reputable ways to deal with emissions (but a lit harder yo nature in a slogan or photo op). It will look different, but climate will be built into things differently.
I don’t necessarily think it’s a pivot.. reality is, we need oil even moving towards a greener world. We will be needing and using it to a lesser extent for the next 100 years and longer. Not letting our economy thrive as much as it could doesn’t help anyone’s goals. Hampering our own oil production doesn’t make the world greener. We have learned we must expand Canada’s markets beyond the US.
There is an extremely foolish belief among people that we can wait to fight climate change, despite climate change being a physical reality that does not care about our politics or our economic system. We can fight it, or we can die.
The pipeline won’t happen because the MOU states that it needs to be funded by industry. He knows it because he’s an economist and he knows there is no business case for it. Yet Dani thinks she can rustle up the funds from the O/G industry, so she agreed to a bunch of other anti-carbon, pro-climate initiatives.
There’s no climate future or security if there’s no economy. Fix that first, make the most money possible using our most valuable natural resources, THEN tackle the green initiatives.
Just a reminder that the vast majority of fossil fuels’ emissions come from burning them. Not producing them.
Perhaps all the carbon snark should be focused on Canada’s customers?
Because above all Carney is a realist and a capitalist. That’s why I voted for him even though I despise the LPC.
The fact that so many lefties are seething at him but will nonetheless vote ABC is just the cherry on top.
We can’t build a sustainable future by collapsing our economy. Poverty will only increase pollution and apathy towards green tech.
The world needs oil, and we have oil. We can sell the oil to make ourselves rich, and use our wealth to create sustainable options in the future.
If we hit the global tipping point, too bad. Nature will adjust and we’ll adapt, and luckily for us Canada is in the best position to withstand those climate changes.
We should look for indoor farming solutions to separate our food from the climate, and that way we can continue to feed ourselves through droughts and environmental changes.
We can then sell that tech around the world.
Humans have always elevated and separated ourselves from nature, why stop now?