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[–] kbal@fedia.io 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Canada is pretty bad, but if Russia and Saudi Arabia are not on your list of petrostates, you're doing it wrong.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Canada has been called out as a "climate hypocrite" by an independent international sustainability think-tank for claiming to be a clean energy transition leader while stepping up the award of oil and gas drilling permits to levels not seen since 2017.

While you're correct, the point isn't that Canada is the biggest pollutor. It's that Canada swore to do better and is instead doing worse.

And when the CPC wins this next election, it'll get even worse.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Technically, if they openly tear up the agreement, they're not hypocrites.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] AnomalousBit@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Combine this with the fact that Russia, Saudis and others manipulate the price of oil for political and personal gains, I’d much rather see our money going to Canada. Yes, we need to get off carbon burning fuels, but it won’t ever happen if we let our politics and financial power fall to the hands of OPEC.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If someone is going to profit from the apocalypse, it had better be us.

[–] AnomalousBit@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

No, it’s about who you believe will do the right thing in the long run. You think OPEC countries will ever give up oil willingly? Oil is the supermajority of their economies with no real way to pivot to something as large to replace it. If left up to them, they’ll never shut the wells off.