Canadian Dimension: Trudeau’s climate strategy: Denialism through gradualism

The Trudeau government’s approach to tackling climate change strikes a regrettable balance that favours symbolism over action, and it’s rife with hypocrisy. Photo by Catherine McKenna/Twitter. From banks to car companies, ‘greenwashing’–or the practice of conveying misleading information about how a company’s products are environmentally sound—has become a default marketing

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Canadian Dimension: 42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With ‘Moral Clarity’ and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

Alberta’s oilsands north of Fort McMurray. Photo by Louis Bockner/Sierra Club BC. In an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, 42 Nobel laureates implored the federal government to “act with the moral clarity required” to tackle the global climate crisis and stop

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