When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada`s leaders have reached a new low | Bill McKibben
(The Guardian Canada)

A territory that has 0.5% of the Earth´s population plans to use up nearly a third of the planet´s remaining carbon budgetAmericans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax - so it´s no surprise that since taking office he´s been all-in for the fossil fuel industry. There´s no sense despairing; the energy is better spent fighting to remove him from office.Canada, on the other hand, elected a government that believes the climate crisis is real and dangerous - and with good reason, since the nation´s Arctic territories give it a front-row seat to the fastest warming on Earth. Yet the country´s leaders seem likely in the next few weeks to approve a vast new tar sands mine which will pour carbon into the atmosphere through the 2060s. They know - yet they can´t bring themselves to act on the knowledge. Now that is cause for despair.Bill McKibben is an author and Schumann distinguished scholar in environmental studies at Middlebury College, Vermont. His most recent book is Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Continue reading...