Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was interviewed at VICE on what Justin Trudeau needs to do to change the climate change math.

From the article:

VICE: You’ve said that Justin Trudeau’s actions on climate seem to be falling short of his words. If Canada is going to hit its climate targets—reducing emissions 30 percent by 2030—what kind of actions do you want to see from our PM?

Bill McKibben: Canada’s biggest problem with meeting its climate targets is the tar sands. Much of Canadian politics was centred around that development in Alberta for the last decade, which made it impossible for Canada to be a real participant in the global fight on climate change. It really had become by the end of the Harper years a rogue nation—maybe the most prominent one in the developed world.

Rhetorically that’s changed. Mr. Trudeau said in Paris it was extremely important that we solve this climate crisis. He knows as well as anyone knows the math of global warming simply doesn’t allow us to keep building new pipelines, to keep expanding the tar sands, to keep digging out more and more coal and oil and gas. So we’re grateful for his rhetorical commitment to fight climate change, but we’re dismayed that the rhetoric seems not yet to have moved to the point of real change.