This is a failure of leadership unrivalled in modern times. What we need is a massive effort that makes cutting greenhouse gas emissions the obsessive objective of all we do.
Despite a lack of evidence, Eddy Yuen not only argues that getting out the truth about environmental crises causes apathy, but insists that it "disables the left but benefits the right and capital."
To stop climate change we need to change ourselves. We need to stop thinking on growth and "development" and push instead for the redistribution of wealth.
There is a new report from Deloitte, Gaining ground in the oil sands 2013, asking Canadians to rally round the 'oilsands' as Canada's all-important economic engine for the next several decades.