POL250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tom Mulcair, National Energy Program, Social Democracy
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Conservative party is all for pipelines want to continue the extraction of oil. Hilary clinton is against the pipeline and is for climate change. President xi jiniping announced last friday that china will have a carbon trading system. Targets big industries such as electric power generation, steel and cement. 20% of electricity from renewables by 2030. Any so called leader that does not treat climate change seriously or treats it like a joke is not fit to lead. He found that people weren"t ideological consistent. Ideology can include religion, values, socioeconomic status, educational attainment. Your ideologies don"t necessarily tell you if you care or not for the environment. There are some ideologies that are associated with environmentalism. Ecocentrism sees the world of how it really is. Dark ecology radical environmentalist who see capitalism as a problem. Things like hybrid cars are just a reason to buy.