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What is Trudeau willing to do? He has a choice. He can carry on the fossil fuel economy, and bludgeon First Nations rights in the process or he can de-escalate, de-carbonise and de-colonise.
This is the first time ever that the 20 degrees barrier has been broken on the continent. "We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica," says Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer.
You cannot bludgeon, beat, intimidate, and drag people in the name of prosperity and progress. You cannot use the same brutal violence akin to war, while at the same time speak soft soothing words of reconciliation or peace.
Canada may be helping put out the flames in Australia, but back home Trudeau is setting light to our climate.
According to the Financial Times "Around $900bn – or one-third of the current value of big oil and gas companies – would evaporate if governments more aggressively attempted to restrict the rise in temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for the rest of this century.”
“I’m done with fossil fuels. We are done. They are just done.”
"Australia is burning and yet ANZ continues to invest billions of dollars in climate wrecking projects. It is illegal for someone to light a bushfire, and we believe it is illegal for companies to finance the burning of our common home. This case is one of many to come against climate criminals".
Decades after BP became aware about the serious consequences of climate change, and as the world faces a climate emergency, the company's outgoing boss, Bob Dudley, seems more content about saving BP, than the planet itself.
On the frontlines, the certainty of before has given way to the uncertainty of the future. But the fossil fuel machine continues to churn and burn.
