We must avoid opening the door to false solutions under vague "climate-smart" rhetoric.
The Trudeau government's policy of being vague on climate change isn't new.
Jealous advocates something a bit vague called "climate action" plus a $15 minimum wage, an end to mass incarceration, the protection of immigrants, and ― get this ― statewide single-payer Medicare for All.
"As a public figure I came close to what Andrew Sullivan called the 'ubiquitous, vaguely homoerotic' climate of the 'male pop groups of that period,' " he writes.
"As a public figure," he writes, "I came close to what Andrew Sullivan called the 'ubiquitous, vaguely homoerotic' climate of the 'male pop groups of that period,' and today I surmise that those suggestions of androgyny, polymorphism and indeterminacy that colored the post-Beatles (post-Elvis?) pop music scene still threaten the conventions that underlie many acts of oppression".
Rounding out the vaguely woke climate tetralogy was 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, set in a brutal post-apocalyptic world filled with resource wars and monstrous warlords.
And given companies are already threatening to take their ball and go home if their projects don't get approved, like, immediately, it makes sense for Clark to keep any vaguely meaningful climate action until after 2017 so she doesn't scare off her friends with benefits (that dumbass 25-year deal that effectively locks in tax rates for LNG companies sure doesn't help).
Rather, resilience is regarded as the overall aim and vaguely described "climate-resilient" products, services, investments, and economies are envisaged.
World leaders gathering in New York are not only being vague about their climate policies.
The wrinkle, always vaguely understood by climate geeks but finally explored in depth in a recent scientific paper, is that the relative impact of different types of travel depends not just on practical factors such as engine efficiency and occupancy rates, but also on something altogether more abstract: the time frame you care about.
Green activists say they are watching whether Clinton moves beyond talking vaguely about the climate – politically safe terrain for any Democratic candidate – to backing strategies that could make a difference but incur a political price, such as imposing new caps on carbon emissions or opposing the Keystone oil pipeline to run from the Canada tar sands to the Gulf Coast.
