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Fossil fuels stand accused of death, destruction, deception, denial, and dishonesty.
They are dirty and disagreeable, but they became deities that we worshipped for decades.
They divide our nation – for some of us (especially Albertans) they are angelic, others (especially climatologists) regard them as demons.
Fossil fuels finance tremendous wealth for the few, a dependable provider of dividends. Just 100 fossil fuel producing companies and their investors have been the source of more than 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1988.
Last year, Oxfam issued a reportconfirming that the richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity.
Agriculture is responsible for about eight per cent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. But newly released internal documents suggest the federal government denies that Canada needs to take action to rapidly reduce them.
The 2019 briefing note was prepared for Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau in response to a landmark 2018 IPCC special report about land use, agriculture, and climate change. That report urged countries to adopt more sustainable farming practices to keep planetary warming below the 1.5 C Paris Agreement threshold.
Yet despite widespread emissions-heavy industrial agriculture in Canada, the 2019 government document suggests the feds saw no need to act: Canadian agricultural emissions account for only one per cent of the global total, and issues raised in the report intense deforestation and the use of croplands to produce biofuels don’t reflect “the Canadian context,” it said.