As wildfire smoke fills the skies and record heat waves cook much of North America, Canadian climate activist Tzeporah Berman says governments need to be pushed to phase out fossil fuels more rapidly. “We need people to stand up to this industry. We need activism to protest in the streets, to demand our governments stand up to this industry. And we also need international cooperation,” says Berman. She also discusses Canada’s investment in the Trans Mountain Pipeline and how governments around the world are propping up the fossil fuel industry rather than embracing a transition to clean energy. Her recent article for The Guardian is headlined “Canada is on fire, and big oil is the arsonist.”
Although I agree that we do need to transition to green energy, not everyone in Canada can rely on green energy simply because it’s not accessible nor reliable for them (usually in the northern areas of Canada). We need to get the infrastructure down for this type of energy and plan out how to properly create it to further expand how much green vs fossil fuel we will use.
I find it ridiculous that she’s blaming “big oil” on the forest fires. Personally, I really doubt (in the way she’s explaining it) they big oil had anything to do with it, assuming she isn’t just talking about climate change and carbon emissions…