There are two sides to Canada’s post pandemic recovery. On the bright
side there’s massive public support for a recovery that puts people
before profits and tackles both the climate crisis and the coronavirus
crisis simultaneously. Hundreds of organizations all across the land have endorsed these Just Recovery Principles. But there is also a dark side.
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| Canada's commitment to different energy types since beginning od Covid 19 pandemic |
1. The Dark Side
“The last time we had a financial meltdown (the 2008-09 recession) it was followed by a record surge in fossil fuel burning,” wrote Barry Saxifrage and Chris Hatch recently in the National Observer.
“At the time there was hope that governments would use their huge,
future-shaping stimulus to transition to a climate-safe economy.”
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| Fossil Fuel Burning Annual Totals |
Well,
that didn’t happen. Instead, the burning of fossils soared in 2010 and
continued its upward trajectory every single year since. That is, until
the pandemic as the Global Fossil Fuel Burning chart illustrates. The
blue dotted line on the chart shows the projection for an 8% decline in
CO² for 2020.
