Canada stuck in denial until MPs understand climate emergency requires deep systemic change

Reasonable MPs must understand that climate is an emergency requiring transformative policies to quickly and effectively bend the emissions curve. We need a managed decline of fossil fuel production—the only policy that could reduce emissions by the imperative 50 per cent (at least) by 2030.

Pictured: a protest of government inaction on climate change on Parliament Hill in 2019. Here we have safe, totally defanged climate policy for the electorate, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

December 20, 2021

GIBSONS, B.C.—There is an important new climate science paper—Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why haven't we bent the emissions curve?—that is very informative and especially pertinent to Hill T...

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