What Canada’s pro-oil boosters fail to grasp about climate change – Macleans.ca
The Conservatives’ anti-carbon-tax message is selling like Ford F-150s in the Prairies, but it is not doing the party much good in other parts of the country, where most voters want climate action, although they always tell pollsters they want someone else to pay for it.
The horrible truth, the message that Thunberg will deliver in Montreal today, is that we have no choice but to pay. We can pay now or leave it for her generation to pay later, when the price will be much steeper, tragically steeper.
The problem is that we do not want to hear her message, not just because of the PR campaign telling us that we’re foolish to be alarmed—which is a lie—but because it’s easier to do nothing and let Thunberg’s generation deal with it.
It’s no wonder she is angry.
