I watched the Pierre Poilievre - Jordan Peterson lovefest and learned a few things. Like how Pierre thinks oil companies are too green and climate concern means you're overly emotional. Plus he really dislikes loons, even though they are lovely creatures instagram.com/reel/DFJByL8yK…
Keith Stewart
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Climate & energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada. Teach a course on energy policy at U of T. I’m now also on mastodon at @climatekeith@c.im
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Poilievre successfully poisoned the well on consumer carbon tax (thanks, misinformation enablers), but industrial carbon price did the heavy lifting & should be expanded alongside an aggressive green industrial strategy that moves into spaces Trump vacates theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
This is the best piece I've read so far on the collapse of voluntary 'green' banking alliances: they didn't do much, but banks liked them because they preempted regulation; governments liked them because they didn't have to do the hard work of regulating theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
AP does a deep dive on how "sustainability-linked loans" greenwash banks and fossil fuel companies: How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans apnews.com/article/shell-…
When asked 'how can a new Liberal leader beat Pierre Poilievre?', Trudeau leads with 'Poilievre is bad on climate' in both English and French.
Others made this point recently: cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Others made this point recently: cbc.ca/news/politics/…