Hot Enough Yet?

We are featured today in Bill McKibben’s New Yorker Article - we being Canadians and he’s asking the question about our politicians. You can guess the answer. While the temperature breaks all records, how are we responding?

• Polls show 75% of us are anxious about climate change - and we are a liberal democracy, so that should help.

• The Arctic is warming faster than any other place and we have a front seat to watch that.

• Wildfires have burned the most forest ever.

• Air quality related to fires made ours the worst in the world.

This should result in some good political action. What is happening?

• We’re building a natural gas exporting terminal - and we may count exports as part of the carbon tax.

• Politicians say we are making progress - but we don’t want anything to change locally because that would upset too many people and mean not get re-elected.

• We’re not alone. But we are absolutely the poster child for how these things work. Will any radical solution break through even with democratic societies who suffer the least?