After 30 years of failed mitigation, we need to cut emissions by half globally by 2030; this is almost impossible, but must be done

Climate change is now recognized as a severe, existential danger, and the only treatment with any hope of keeping us safe is major systemic change beginning with a rapid regulated wind-down of all fossil fuel production.

The oilsands in Fort McMurray, Alta. Our present conception of mitigation is a plan to fail. It just keeps fossil fuels in the game running out the clock. It is a plan to sacrifice our kids' future and everything we love and care about, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

July 17, 2023

GIBSONS, B.C.—About a decade ago, there was a flurry of news stories and columns in the Canadian media about carbon pricing. In the 1990s, I had been very pro-carbon pricing, but then-British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell’s ineffectual and pretend mitigation plan with...

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