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What makes Murray’s “awakening” particularly interesting is not that it is so out of character for him. To be sure, the Ontario government did some great things on climate under his watch - ending coal-powered electricity generation for starters - but he was always a politician who stayed squarely within the realm of the “politically possible.” Similarly, when Murray was in office, he was a cap-and-trade evangelist.
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Both are climate champions, but they have also been adherents to the kind of slow, politically pragmatic approach to climate change that has failed to move politics at the speed or scale of the crisis. Murray is a sort of Canadian version of former California Gov. His conclusion was that the climate crisis demanded massive civil disobedience and a “revolutionary approach.” He closed his short Twitter essay by saying, “It is not alarmist to pull the fire alarm when your home is on fire.” “It isn’t conventional & it has to be nonviolent but able to generate massive change.” “I am down to the dregs of hope on climate change & after decades on the front lines of fighting it, I am taking time to figure out what I can do that is enough to change the course we are on,” he wrote. Taking to Twitter a few weeks after the climate report dropped, he called for a climate revolution.
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Former Ontario Environment Minister and lifelong climate incrementalist Glen Murray was one of those people. The report sent a shockwave through the climate community and, in a lot of circles, people started freaking out. Last October, something strange happened when the United Nations released a report saying we have just 12 years to limit the disastrous effects of climate change: The world paid attention.įor a moment, media outlets around the world collectively shared the report’s stark, and frankly terrifying, findings that “temperature rise to date has already resulted in profound alterations to human and natural systems,” that climate change is happening faster than anyone predicted and - based on everything scientists know - we only have a matter of years to get our act together and right the ship.