So much for promises of ‘early and deep cuts’ to avoid catastrophic climate change

Governments have been making these promises since the early 1990s, and they are never kept because the political pressures are far stronger from those who profit in the present—the fossil fuel industries and the auto, shipping, and aviation industries—than from those who are merely frightened for their children’s future.

A climate protester, pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Sept. 27, 2019.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 2, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—What a surprise! The annual emissions report by the United Nations is now out, and greenhouse gas emissions are still going up 30 years after we first realized the...

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