Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took some heat Wednesday for Canada's fossil fuel expansion at a time when the science is clear that fossil fuels must be phased out, underscoring a gulf between rhetoric and action.
Trudeau deserves all the grilling. He’s made promises over promises about curbing emissions all the while pushing for petrol in practice. He’s losing popularity fast domestically too -- but the conservatives are picking up steam to replace him at the next election. Those ones don’t even pretend to care.
Yeah JT is in a tough spot because the liberals are essentially corporate centrists, they will say lots of lefty fluffy stuff to get elected but then their corporate masters (oil companies primarily) wont let them do any of it. And the only viable alternative for Canadians is the conservatives who will definitely trash the environment completely if they get a majority.
If it was restricted to use in necessary cases such as sterile packaging of medical tools, it would last so long as to be effectively forever. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of years.
I wouldn't be surprised if half of everything you own includes some form of plastic. Phones, cars, appliances, even clothing is made from petroleum.There's a LOT of things that could be replaced with non-petroleum products (like textiles) but there's also some fields like medical equipment that we should be saving our reserves for.
The world needs to collectively come to the conclusion that politicians are not going to do a single meaningful thing to help curb the climate crisis. It’s not in their interests to ditch fossil fuels or make any strides that reduce power or income.
What was it again. USA, Canada, Norway and the UK making up over half the worlds new emissions in gas and oil drilling. I mean none of them really need the money or even the energy.