CLIMATE CHANGE: Can we fix it?

Why we picked it

The scientists have been ringing the alarm bells since the 1970s. And what has changed? It has become far worse than the early atmospheric models predicted. Peak oil has yet to crest and fall. The world wide use of coal and natural gas has actually gone up over the past fifty years. The Government of British Columbia has just signed not one but two megaprojects to build new pipelines. So, what has been holding us back? Why the delay and why the denial? The fossil fuel industries have known from the 1980s the dangerous consequences of their products. Exxon Mobil had internal and highly secretive reports compiled over 25 years ago ominously predicting a serious rise in CO2 and methane gases causing atmospheric disruptions especially in the tropical regions. David Suzuki said three years ago in a CBC interview he will no longer go to the annual climate change conferences. So who is holding up action? Who is resisting change? The United States has spurred two wars in Venezuela and the P