Fossil fuel pollution is overheating Canadian forests, spawning an out-of-control wildfire crisis. Wildfire is now incinerating four times more forest carbon than during the 1990s. In addition to the surging immediate threats of choking smoke, wanton destruction and disrupted lives, rising wildfire is also pumping billions of tonnes of forest carbon into our atmosphere, intensifying long-term climate breakdown.
This accelerating new source of CO2 is adding to the already massive and growing emissions of CO2 caused by humans burning fossil oil, gas and coal. CO2 is a powerful and extremely long-lived greenhouse gas. It is piling up in an ever-thickening blanket in our atmosphere that will overheat generations to come. The extra heat being trapped by humanity’s CO2 now equals the explosions of 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs every day. And rising.
Carney: LET’S BUILD A PAN CANADIAN PIPELINE!
The only way we can save ourselves from Americans is to make a bunch of rich people richer!/s
I’d be a lot less skeptical of Carney and the pipeline if there was some kind of talk of reducing our carbon emissions. As it is, it just seems like an excuse to get all neo-liberal for the oil patch again.
Everybody wants a pipeline to the BC coast so we can get our product to Asia/Europe.
They just don’t want it in their backyard without some greased palms.
Actually most of us don’t want it at all, but try telling a politician that.
Daddy knows what you want better than you do. /s
This chart’s particularly damning:
I can’t say I believe that chart, every other country went down other than Canada. I get that we put 1 big pipeline into operation for oil and one for gas recently, and several since 1990, however there is still no way I believe that the US dropped by 6%. They’ve been building pipelines like mad.
Even reading the summary, 400,000 Hiroshima bombs every day.
The planet will be fine without mankind, and so will nature.
This can all be fixed if the people the masses stand up and say this isn’t what we want, no more multi billionaires, not huge tax digest for corporations and seriously start building nuclear, SMR’s, battery storage etc.
Right now it ain’t working and we are letting the 1% dictate a shitty future for the 99%.
A serious new system where everyone benefits based on real resources not speculation and BS for FIAT dollars.
