{"id":46790,"date":"2019-06-21T06:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46790"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:39:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T11:39:27","slug":"trudeaus-climate-change-policy-is-strategically-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46790","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau\u2019s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trudeau\u2019s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is \u2018climate change denial with a human face.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018This is how climate change denial will increasingly look in the future.\u2019 Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Trudeau government\u2019s recent actions \u2014 declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days \u2014 aren\u2019t just hypocritical: they\u2019re morally equivalent to climate change denial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nation\u2019s authority on climate change recently recommended<\/a>\u201crapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society\u201d to counter an imminent crisis, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s recent decisions have flagrantly ignored the UN\u2019s counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s bent over backwards to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline\u2019s 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<\/a> climate change denying research and (knowingly) pollutes the planet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make no mistake: Trudeau\u2019s actions represent climate change denial \u201cwith a human face,\u201d a darker version of Czech communist leader Alexander Dub\u010dek\u2019s 1968 description of his ill-fated liberalization program as \u201csocialism with a human face.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is how climate change denial will increasingly look in the future: a mixture of symbolic proclamation and strategically inadequate policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With flooding, suffocating wildfires and abnormal temperatures<\/a> across much of the country, the climate crisis isn\u2019t just a theoretical concern for most Canadians. Global warming\u2019s impacts are now apparent, a fact that\u2019s reflected in a recent poll<\/a> showing that over two-thirds of Canadians consider stopping climate change \u201ca priority.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trudeau\u2019s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is \u2018climate change denial with a human face.\u2019 The Trudeau government\u2019s recent actions \u2014 declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days \u2014 aren\u2019t just hypocritical: they\u2019re morally equivalent to climate change denial. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[103,106,141,8054,26102],"class_list":["post-46790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-climate-change","tag-transmountain-pipeline","tag-tristan-hughes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46791,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46790\/revisions\/46791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}