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It's the economy you're worried about? You fucks understand if climate change isn't sorted out Everyone DIES?
We only have one economy! (not my opinion ofc but there was a group of lobbyists holding a banner with these exact words in front of our parliament unironically)
At this point i feel pretty beat down. All i can muster enough energy for nowadays, is to limit my own impact (i know thats not enough) and maybe talk to friends about climate change (only if the topic is brought up by them tho).
And anyone left will be living a live probably not worth living.
Not even sure about this. The rich and powerful seem to believe that they can save themselves. Depending on how many people survive they might enslave enough to have a somewhat sufferable experience.
This, yes. And at the same time they try to convince everyone else that climate change does not exist.
End of the century is so far away lmao. We'll see a lot worse than a poor economy by then. Even financial costs of environmental issues will be felt long before then.
People don't care about what will happen to them in the next decade, companies don't care what will happen to them in the next quarter. We need to highlight the changes that are real and immediate too
It's the only way to get some people to react. I live in a rural area, people take their truck to drive 300m from their field to the local greasy spoon where they leave their big diesel idling and then they drive back 300m, they don't realize they're part of the issue and that their land will be worthless with climate change. Make them realize that if things don't change they'll be out of a job because their land won't be able to grow anything anymore and they might finally understand they have their part in it.
It's shameful that Trudeau himself started the unwinding of the carbon tax. This home heating exclusion for Atlantic Canada was the beginning of the end.
My not well informed opinion is that the carbon tax won't fight climate change. It'll just make living in Canada more expensive.
All of our major political parties are neoliberal in ideology. The conversation is never about how to actually tackle carbon emissions. It's about how much they'd fund a specific solution. (The conservatives sometimes buck this trend, but they don't put forward solutions that can actually have an impact.)