It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics | How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared?

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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics | How do we think about the climate future, now that the era marked by the Paris Agreement has so utterly disappeared? - SLRPNK

Lemmy

“The world” hasn’t soured on Climate politics. Just the world’s politicians have. Not that they ever really tried to do anything about it. They’re just tired of pretending to care, at this point.
*The worlds politicians, who are owned by the most sociopathic and psychopathic oligarchs…

A sculpture in Berlin called “Politicians discussing global warming”

The sad thing is that people are voting for those politicians.

In Canada, the Liberals introduced the carbon tax around a decade ago. But one of the most popular points of the Conservatives was “axe the tax”. Seeing how popular the slogan was, amd wanting to be re-elected, the Liberals did just that. They removed their very own carbon tax.

It makes gas cheaper so people want that. Cheap gas to power their ever bigger pickup trucks and SUVs. Who would vote to keep higher gas prices and use a smaller car? Or even worse, who would vote for bike lanes and public transit?

Politicians are pretty much just doing what people expect of them. They have to make sure gas is ever cheaper, that growth stays infinite, while also pretending to do something about the environment.

It didn’t make gss or anything cheaper though. Corporations pocket more profit and now I do t get a rebate.