The world is on fire. Why is Canada considering massive new oil drilling? | Conor Curtis and Tzeporah Berman

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : This includes coming up with a plan to support oil and gas workers to shift into clean energy opportunities and other sectors.
57% : 2,800 scientists, 101 Nobel laureates and 170 parliamentarians from 33 countries, including many from Canada, have endorsed the principles of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to end expansion, wind down existing production and scale up the shift to clean energy and low-carbon technologies.
52% :Last year, the International Energy Agency and the IPCC both confirmed that in order to stay below 1.5C of warming, the expansion of oil, gas and coal projects must stop and a planned winding down of both production and emissions begin.
47% : Those were the words of António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, in response to the sobering recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which warned that the world has a small window remaining to act before irreversible and catastrophic impacts are locked in.
40% : A Norwegian oil company wants to drill 73m barrels a year off the coast of Newfoundland - the equivalent of adding 7m gas cars to the roadCoal and other fossil fuels are "choking humanity".

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