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It's much worse in the US though because the gap is so much wider. Even in the UK or Canada or Australia, the right is not opposing climate change or healthcare
by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's much worse in the US though because the gap is so much wider. Even in the UK or Canada or Australia, the right is not opposing climate change or healthcare or anything reasonable to the same extent as in the US.
- mrkeen 2y agoThe last time the right got voted in in Australia, they revoked the carbon tax that the left had recently set up. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/2013/sep/18/tony-abbott-abolish-carbon-price https://www.theguardian.com/environment/southern-crossroads/...
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoThey absolutely are here in Canada. Especially around climate change because Canada is an oil exporter. And they will be emboldened by what just happened in the US. Alberta outright banned renewables development for 6 months and then slapped a huge set of restrictions on them after that "moratorium" was lifted. A tax on electric car owners added. The conservative parties nationally are on a constant drum beat about the national carbon tax and it's doomed. Weak emissions caps we have are also doomed. Any little things that have been done for the last 10 years will be undone. At a recent party convention in Alberta, the ruling party passed a climate denial resolution as official party policy. Amazingly lots of people on this forum trying to sanitize what these people are about.
- smnrchrds 2y agoMeanwhile the governing party in my home province in Canada is doing this: https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/06/UCP-Members-More-CO2-Help-Plants/ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/06/UCP-Members-More-CO2-H...
- ruthmarx 2y agoHow on earth does anyone think that is a good idea? Sigh. It's always a minority of humanity that has to save the rest from themselves, as they kick and scream and resist every step of the way.