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"Canada is on fire from coast to coast to coast. Thousands have been evacuated,
millions exposed to air pollution, New York a doom orange and even the titans
of Wall Street choking.
Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, back-to-back cyclones in the Pacific islands
and droughts in Africa haven’t been enough to create a tipping point for
action. Now that climate impacts have hit the economic capital of western
power, will it spur governments in the global north to get serious?
A lack of scientific knowledge about climate change is not the barrier. Nor is
a lack of cleaner, safer, cheaper energy alternatives. The IPCC said as much
last year – the barrier is vested fossil fuel interests putting their profit
above our safety.
We know exactly which fossil fuel companies are robbing us of clean air and a
secure future. We can now measure which oil companies are responsible for
wildfires (13 operate in Canada), but oil executives are still calling the
shots.
Internationally, big oil has been flooding the climate talks for decades. The
result? The Paris agreement doesn’t even include the words fossil fuels, oil,
gas or coal. And today we are on track to produce 110% more oil, gas and coal
by 2030 than the world can ever burn, or it will burn us. If we are going to
manage the decline of fossil-fuel production in an equitable and fair way we
need our governments to stand up to big oil and start negotiating a new
international agreement on fossil fuels to complement the Paris agreement."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
