Mark Carney’s fossil fuel pivot bewilders climate experts and business leaders | Canadian prime minister’s legacy as one-time UN envoy and clean power advocate undermined by energy shift

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1. No one is “bewildered”.

2. Cool it turns out even with so called adults in the room… they still pivot and follow an orange baby and push us further towards the cliff … bravo

3. What is there to be bewildered about. He is your typical modern two faced politician that no longer cares about showing his true colors. These people would nuke the moon if it could make them money. It’s about greed and power. It is about being beholden to his benefactors. The consequences for the common man they “serve” does not really matter to them in the least. You think they care about the environment? Haha….

4. >Mark Carney’s embrace of fossil fuels to counter US trade hostilities

   How is doing exactly what the US far right oligarchs want “countering US trade hostilities”? It’s a good article otherwise, but I’m so sick of seeing this blatant consent-manufacturing lie repeated uncritically.

   Our current national strategy is a total capitulation to the US marketed as defiance.

5. He must have either been bought or capitulated to Trump trade pressures

6. think hes getting some pressure/kick backs/threats from big oil?

7. I’m certainly bewildered.

   There was enough fossil fuel infrastructure about a decade ago to ensure we smoke through any 2°C limit, and yet we build more.

   Burning oil and gas are insanely inefficient ways to liberate energy, estimated by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to be maybe 33% efficient at doing the work it’s intended to do. But it still massively overloads the atmosphere with used and unused energy.

   Alberta oil is about the least rational energy source on the planet, with the lowest energy return on energy invested (EROEI) of any major oil source anywhere, yet we still want to pretend it’s “clean” by trying to recapture some of its emissions after released. Good luck with that. At least it will be mostly financed by governments via incentives and tax credits. And even that is going to require more energy investment for the same energy return.

   And so far, the last great nutcase oil pipeline, intended to open up the Asian market, has done far more to get oil into California than any where else. I thought we wanted to actually reduce economic dependance on the US market.

   And still neoliberal business cases can be constructed to distract the super-economist/climate envoy from the fundamentals of the physical world.

   And while I’m bewildered, things are going just about as well as I expected.

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