The road to climate hell is paved with muddled messaging

None of us is winning—and the planet certainly isn’t—when commentary veers all over the climate road.

The reaction to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s road-building comments demonstrates that the government’s main climate messenger is either dismissed as a messianic nut or politically naive, neither of which help advance a sensible, solution-oriented climate-change discourse, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

February 21, 2024

OTTAWA—Last week wasn’t a great one on the climate change front. If, like me, you know climate change is real, and recognize that one of the biggest remaining threats is a public discourse that educates, reinforces its legitimacy, and helps build consensus towards soluti...

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