Der kanadische Premierminister Mark Carney ist nicht der Klima-Typ, von dem Sie dachten | Seth Klein
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/21/mark-carney-climate-canada
Der kanadische Premierminister Mark Carney ist nicht der Klima-Typ, von dem Sie dachten | Seth Klein
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/21/mark-carney-climate-canada
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Much like Trudeau before him, Carney deals in corporate greenwash that sounds like Greenpeace to the right and Exxon to the left.
He told you to take down the sign & pretending was over. Did anyone think the central banker was going to be anything but this?
I don’t think Canadians voted for Mark Carney because of his previous work on climate change, but much more because of his finance credentials at the national level. He did championed climate finance before, but just like the concept of recycling in developing countries, when you are in a crisis, priorities are different.
Also, a lot of climate talks have been very lofty and idealistic and yet, it didn’t do much in practice. Carney is a pragmatist and he knows that you can’t „impose“ climate actions on a population that doesn’t really wants it. Most Canadians have demonstrated that they like the idea of working on climate change, but not really actually doing it (people love their SUVs, people dislike carbon taxes, people waste water to clean their driveway, people complain about the price of electricity when it is quite cheap in Canada compared to Europe).
Carney works on climate at the speed that Canadians want him to, which right now is in first gear only compared to other priorities.
Any climate action not palatable to the population at large is doomed to fail and is potentially political suicide. China developed the largest renewable energy capacity in the world exactly because it is not a democracy and doesn’t need to ask the population if it wants it or not.
He recognizes the moment we’re in. But things like fighting for the industrial carbon tax, re-instituting EV rebates, and pushing to fully decarbonize our electrical grid *are* wins
I don’t know if the blowback was inevitable or just a result of Trudeau bungling it, but the economy matters more to Canadians than the environment right now – and you can see that in his polling
Who thought Carney wasnt conservative? The guy was a banker all his life, his entire career before office (which was as PM, day one) was to cater to the rich. You think hes going to be anything but a right winger and do anything good for normal people?!
Be honest with trump and economic issues carney likely can get away with it…
Also many felt the previous govt ignored economic issues and fixated itself on an environmental policy that they couldn’t understand or didnt believe actually works (carbon tax).
I been thinking since 2015 it was likely been way better off to focus solely on direct results like sensible regulations or subsides for green tech….we likely be way better off.
Simple thing like a focus on hybrids thrn just evs and I bet most cars in canada been at least hybrids by now
Carney’s been PM for a bit over a year and we’re seeing that he’s just another neoliberal. Trudeau was in office a little over a year before he broke [his electoral reform promise](https://globalnews.ca/news/3102270/justin-trudeau-liberals-electoral-reform-changing-promises/). For Liberals, progressive politics are just decorative flourishes in campaign speeches.
That’s fine with me. It’s not high up on my priority list right now. I voted for him because I wanted stuff to get built and to not have constant culture wars.
He’s a pragmatist. Climate platforms lose elections to rising authoritarian populism and divides people. Our sovereignty is under attack and for once Canada is unifying around a common cause. He sees this, and he knows that strengthening this bond lies in building our economic strength. You only have the privilege of aspiring to lofty climate goals if you’re independent, self-reliant and sovereign. So for all the people saying he’s not who he claimed to be, go pound sand.
He’s exactly as “climate guy” as I thought, that is, he’s a pragmatist who does climate guy stuff when it’s convenient and/or profitable and doesn’t when it’s not.
This article is a hot mess. Carney’s approval ratings are at an all time high because of his pragmatism, not in spite of it. Climate activists who engage in this kind of hand waiving misinformation are a discredit to professionals who actually care about making progress in the real world which, it should be noted, does require making difficult decisions when circumstances demand it. It is truly unfortunate when periodicals like The Guardian shed the hard work of critical thinking and instead embrace simplistic, emotional clickbait.
Personally, I did not vote for Carney, but one thing I thought he seemed good at (on the surface) was doing things because they are right, rather than because they are popular.
I assumed his climate background would mean he would push Canadians on the topic, not drag them.
Just because something is popular, doesn’t mean its good policy or the right thing to do.
People are notoriously bad at making choices in their best interest, especially when it comes to the future.
He’s a guy who’s able to make pragmatic decisions based on the context, instead of blindly doing things to constantly satisfy a specific group of voters. That’s a good thing. Let the politicians down south do that other thing.
Canadians don’t care about climate change. Voter’s demanded that the Canadian government scrap effective climate policy and boost oil production. Climate change inflation is emerging all around us. We will pay dearly in the coming years and we did it to ourselves
There aren’t ten people in the whole country who changed their vote to Liberal because they thought Mark Carney was an environmentalist.
People seemed to project their wishes onto Carney and many seem to change whatever they wish he would do to whatever it is he is doing. He’s gotten a level of blind unconditional support I didn’t anticipate.
I voted for Carney this election and he’s been much worse than expected. I don’t understand why he’s flawless to do many.
Who cares, the man is midst saving Canada’s ass and putting Canadians on top of the world stage. Take win and shut up about the noise.
Let’s stop talking about the climate as if it votes for left or right. It affects all of us so let’s have polices that are good for the people who will all be impacted by fires and floods regardless of political affiliation.
Lmao he greenwashed himself to a degree, which was disappointing on one level. But on another, I’m willing to let him cook and prove himself as someone who can grow the country.