The Future Deja vu: A costly environmental failure to understand energy trends

摘要

To this date in 2016, the most significant event on Vancouver Island is the closing of the Quinsam coal mine and the projected Raven coal mine. This seems to be part of a pattern in the promises and forecasts of BC's pro-industry, liberal government.In 2011, contrary to long-standing environmental projections, available to anyone who cared to read all the literature since the 1972 release of Limits to Growth, that the fossil fuel industry would decline by 2015 as global awareness and concern for climate change progressed, BC's pro-business and largely anti-environmental "liberal" government developed a business strategy largely based on coal and fossil fuel energy.