Canadian PM Carney stays the course on fossil fuels despite the climate reckoning (www.nationalobserver.com)

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 points 17 hours ago

I wanted to cuss at him, but in this case there's no insult better than the truth: Fucking banker.

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 12 points 22 hours ago

As much as climate change is an existential threat to the continuation of civilized life on this planet, Trump has somehow managed to become an even more immediate existential threat to the continuation of civilized life on this planet, so unfortunately I guess that leaves us in a position where we've got to pick our battles for now. Sucks, though.

[-] Subscript5676@piefed.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

I, for one, don't see it as a mutually exclusive choice: why can't we do both? There's an immediate threat and a looming one, it's not one or the other here. I can accept that we have to pump out more fossil fuel in the short term given our circumstances, but little is being done to move the needle on the general dependence of fossil fuels.