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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: World Politics and Elections 2024
« Last post by dubsartur on March 21, 2024, 02:32:29 AM »When the party-of-capital BC Liberals rebranded as BC United to avoid associations with centrist party-of-power federal Liberals in April 2023, something predictable happened: their support in the polls collapsed in favour of the BC Conservatives. This put the leader of BC United in the situation of having to say on the record that voters are confusing the provincial and federal conservatives, which is plausible but not very respectful to low-information voters. Canadian parties have very small advertising and PR budgets so a rebranded party does not have many chances to communicate the new name between elections.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/27/Kevin-Falcon-BC-United-Not-Doomed/
Unfortunately BC United has gone full 'how can we reduce our emissions when China exists?' One factor which the Tyee interview leaves out is that most of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from the year 1 to 2000 was added by Europe and the North Atlantic plus Japan. So we got the benefits, and telling India and China that they have to stay poor because we used up the global carbon budget is not likely to be convincing.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/27/Kevin-Falcon-BC-United-Not-Doomed/
Unfortunately BC United has gone full 'how can we reduce our emissions when China exists?' One factor which the Tyee interview leaves out is that most of the CO2 added to the atmosphere from the year 1 to 2000 was added by Europe and the North Atlantic plus Japan. So we got the benefits, and telling India and China that they have to stay poor because we used up the global carbon budget is not likely to be convincing.