What we’ve got right now is a carrots-only policy.
Getting to where we need to be means winning a whole lot more seats in congress so that we don’t have legal requirements to auction off drilling leases and treat existing leases as a property right guaranteeing the right to drill.
I wish it was that simple, but I am living in Canada and currently we have a left leaning minority government who formed a coalition with an even more left leaning government and they both keep saying they want to help the climate crisis but they both keep letting companies log old growth forests or start new oil drilling operations. The problem isn’t which politicians we have it’s the fact that the politicians are in big oils pockets regardless, just some more than others.
I know I’m complaining a lot, and no I don’t have any solutions, I wish I did.
The Canadian Liberal party is not really “left leaning” except relative to someone firmly planted on the right. They’re a wishy-washy centrist party who will never do anything to offend big corporations.
What we’ve got right now is a carrots-only policy.
Getting to where we need to be means winning a whole lot more seats in congress so that we don’t have legal requirements to auction off drilling leases and treat existing leases as a property right guaranteeing the right to drill.
I wish it was that simple, but I am living in Canada and currently we have a left leaning minority government who formed a coalition with an even more left leaning government and they both keep saying they want to help the climate crisis but they both keep letting companies log old growth forests or start new oil drilling operations. The problem isn’t which politicians we have it’s the fact that the politicians are in big oils pockets regardless, just some more than others.
I know I’m complaining a lot, and no I don’t have any solutions, I wish I did.
In the US at least, we pushed a lot of the Democrats into signing a pledge to reject money from the fossil fuel industry executives and lobbyists. The exact terms of the pledge are designed to match public disclosure rules, so that we’ll know if the pledge if violated. This is part of how we’ve gotten at least something, though we haven’t yet managed to elect enough pledge signers to actually pass legislation without the votes of a few paid-off individuals.
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The Canadian Liberal party is not really “left leaning” except relative to someone firmly planted on the right. They’re a wishy-washy centrist party who will never do anything to offend big corporations.