In 2019, it felt like the climate movement was really gaining steam in US + Canada. Mass mobilizations, a political environment where endorsing further fossil fuel development was increasingly toxic, etc. But all of that discursive progress seems to have been completely lost 1/ The pandemic is obviously one reason. But the Ukraine war, and more importantly, the deployment of a new story tying western militarism to domestic petro-nationalism, completely changed the game. 2/

The @globeandmail just published an editorial responding to the government's sectoral emissions cap proposal and claiming that reducing oil and gas production in Canada is not an option. It may seem that they're admonishing the liberals here, but it's actually more subtle. 1/ The Liberal government's emissions cap proposal is already deliberately being designed to avoid cutting oil and gas production. Hell, Guilbeault just made a statement about "flexibility" for oil companies and his colleague Jonathan Wilkinson is full steam ahead on new projects 2/