11mo ago

Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder

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We are an embarrassment.
And our leaders play politics with carbon taxes just like Trump played his idiots. And we lap it up.
- I think it's worse, actually. People genuinely don't want to stop climate change if it requires any personal financial sacrifice.
  The carbon tax pays out exactly as much as it takes in, even, and it's not enough.
  
  Totally. The Me Last generation.
Albeit slowly cutting emissions. Nobody's doing enough to actually stop climate change much ahead of schedule, as far as I know.
The bad news is that we're probably going to get rid of our one significant emissions reduction program next election, because people don't actually care that much.
meanwhile Alberta passes a "CO2 is just plant food" decloration

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