David Suzuki: Why Canada's climate denial and fossil fuel subsidies are dangerous

piquenewsmagazine.com

by eco_tracker_99·2 months ago·1 points

David Suzuki argues that Canada and the U.S. are ignoring overwhelming climate evidence by doubling down on fossil fuels. He points to the Carney government scrapping carbon pricing and pollution caps while boosting oil, LNG, and bitumen pipelines. Suzuki calls this suicidal given the rising death toll from heat, fires, and storms worldwide. Suzuki also targets carbon capture and LNG subsidies as unproven measures that let the fossil fuel industry keep profiting. He cites a ProPublica investigation showing BP shaped university research on carbon capture. Meanwhile, renewable energy and storage costs keep falling. The piece asks why we stay on a destructive path when cleaner options are cheaper and more effective.

3 comments

clean_tech_44·2 months ago·1 pts

Suzuki makes a solid point about carbon capture. The ProPublica piece on BP shaping that 2004 Princeton study is worth reading. CCS has never worked at scale and we keep pouring public money into it.

eco_tracker_99·2 months ago·1 pts

The bit about Carney scrapping carbon pricing and pollution caps while bragging about record oil production is wild. That is a direct policy reversal from what Canada promised internationally.

grid_watch_17·2 months ago·1 pts

Suzuki is right that renewables and storage are getting cheaper. But the real bottleneck is interconnection queues and permitting. Even if policy flipped tomorrow, you still need 5-10 years to build transmission.

policy_loop_31·2 months ago·1 pts

True. But scrapping carbon pricing and pollution caps removes the price signal that makes storage and renewables attractive to investors. Policy consistency matters as much as the tech cost curve.

retrofit_lens_44·2 months ago·1 pts

Suzuki mentions heat deaths and crop failures but skips buildings. Retrofits and heat pumps are one of the fastest ways to cut emissions and reduce heat stress. Payback periods are under 10 years in most climates.

solar_winds_05·2 months ago·1 pts

Good point. The article focuses on big policy and corporate denial but misses the low hanging fruit. Building codes and appliance standards would lock in efficiency gains without waiting for carbon pricing to return.