Those who suffer most from climate change did the least to cause it - Macleans.ca

Of all of the horrific images coming out of Australia’s relentless bushfires, there’s one by news photographer Brad Fleet that haunts me the most. It’s of a charred, blackened piece of coal–a piece of coal that used to be a kangaroo. The poor thing was just a baby, as innocent as the children choking on the country’s beaches right now, and the rest of the estimated one billion animals that have died in the fires so far.

But amid all this praise for their fire techniques, ongoing mistreatment of the world’s Indigenous people will likely make the climate emergency worse. Currently, the Australian government is trying to push the Wangan and Jagalingou people off of 1,385 hectares in Queensland. Incredibly, it’s to mine for coal, the fuel that the International Energy Agency says is the single largest source of the global temperature increase.

Yes, the Trudeau government has managed to get the whole country paying carbon levies. It’s also pretending that reducing emissions and growing a resource-based economy can happen at the same time. Last October, the prime minister reiterated that the Trans Mountain pipeline will be completed “as soon as possible,” even though it also crosses Indigenous territory that many Secwepmc are unwilling to give up.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

Did he count them

Might I take this opportunity to remind you that arson is to blame for a lot of those fires...but I hear earthworms are causing climate change, and cow farts...so are the animals really that innocent?

In the mean time B.C. Ships hundreds of thousands tons of coal and you say nothing. Maclean’s has sunk to an unprecedented low. Selectively critical and now irrelevant.

Pushing away blame from those who deserve it undermines the legitimacy of of those that do so.

Truly tragic to see!

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