The Rebel to Rabble Review: Climate issues under the spotlight – iPolitics

Jan 10, 2020

Happy New Year, Rebel to Rabble regulars, irregulars and first-timers alike. Let’s start this week’s recap over at Rabble, where David Suzuki marked the first week of the new year by outlining “a vision for climate action” — one that he hopes will kick off not just one rotation around the sun, but an entire decade during which “we finally take climate disruption as seriously as the evidence shows we must.”

Given what he sees as the most likely outcome of such commitment — “healthier children, less risk of extreme weather-related events like floods and fires, fewer refugees, cleaner cities, and more sustainably managed resources,” just to name a few — he finds it “astounding that anyone would oppose that,” although he’s equally swift to acknowledge that “people working in coal, oil, and gas have legitimate fears about their futures, and need support and training as the industry automates and transitions.”

And yet, he notes, “despite promises to stop, our government and others continue to massively subsidize the most profitable industry in history with tax breaks, reduced royalties and incentives,” as well as “develop climate strategies — many of them good — and then turn around and buy a pipeline or frack the hell out of the landscape.”