Category: Environment

How Climate Activists are Getting it Wrong

Climate Champions, or Roadblocks?

As most of the world realises, climate change is real, potentially catastrophic, and caused/exacerbated by human activity (i.e. greenhouse gas emissions).  The evidence is overwhelming. 

Climate change should be an apolitical issue.  It affects all people, regardless of location, economic status, or political stripe, and demands action from all people.  Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions should be a non-partisan, politically neutral, shared necessity.  Should be. 

There are opponents, usually on the conservative side of the spectrum, who resist any reasonable action on climate.   Among this group of detractors, deniers and do-nothings are those who dismiss climate activists as politically driven opportunists – wanting more to advance a socialist revolution rather than to save the planet.  How can they say this?  Because climate activists are doing everything they can to portray climate action as an element of a socialist revolution.  Their objective appears to be a radical transformation of society (i.e. “System Change”), bundling action on climate with action on social issues.  They aren’t helping.  Instead of convincing those who need to be convinced that combatting climate change is not a radical idea, the activists seem hell-bent on making it a radical idea. 

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Confused, Muddled and Misleading – Ontario’s Plan for Climate Change

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“Marge, come here! There’s money coming out of the walls!”

 

Doug Ford’s Conservative government is spending millions of Ontario tax dollars to complain about a federal carbon tax, which he argues will cost Ontarians dearly.  But, the television ads which have cluttered the airwaves for the past few weeks show a different picture – a puzzled man sitting on a sofa reading a newspaper, watching a stream of cash spurting from a heat vent onto his living room floor.  A stunned-looking woman filling up with gas being treated to a cascade of coins flowing from the pump.  Grocery store shoppers side-stepping the money shooting out from between ketchup bottles.  Contrary to DoFo’s intentions, the ads show that under a federal carbon tax, cash streams in, not out.

That sort of confused, muddled and misleading thinking and messaging epitomizes DoFo’s entire approach to climate change.  It’s a bit of a mess. Continue reading “Confused, Muddled and Misleading – Ontario’s Plan for Climate Change”