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Related: About this forumJustin Trudeau: "Climate Denial With A Human Face"
The Trudeau governments recent actions declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days arent just hypocritical: theyre morally equivalent to climate change denial.
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Hes bent over backwards to ensure the Trans Mountain pipelines expansion, propping up the project with extensive financial and rhetorical support. In the process, the Trudeau government has perpetuated the prerogatives of an industry that has funded climate change denying research and (knowingly) pollutes the planet. Make no mistake: Trudeaus actions represent climate change denial with a human face, a darker version of Czech communist leader Alexander Dubčeks 1968 description of his ill-fated liberalization program as socialism with a human face.
Trudeau and the Liberal party affirm the reality of global warming in theory, but they effectively deny the phenomenon in practice by facilitating a harmful status quo and belittling the urgency of radical change. This is how climate change denial will increasingly look in the future: a mixture of symbolic proclamation and strategically inadequate policy.
With flooding, suffocating wildfires and abnormal temperatures across much of the country, the climate crisis isnt just a theoretical concern for most Canadians. Global warmings impacts are now apparent, a fact thats reflected in a recent poll showing that over two-thirds of Canadians consider stopping climate change a priority.
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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2019/06/21/Trudeau-Climate-Policy-Inadequate/
shanny
(6,709 posts)Think of this: what kind of world would we have if every decision made, had to be good for the next 7 generations? A very different one, that is certain.