Talking the Good Talk Without Walking the Walk

It is depressing to read that Canada, with a generally highly educated 0.5% of the world's population, and all sorts of means of producing carbon neutral power, appears hell-bent on using up a substantial amount of the world's carbon credits by exploiting the tar sands deposits in that country (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/05/when-it-comes-to-climate-hypocrisy-canadas-leaders-have-reached-a-new-low). This is apparently so even as their politicians express concerns about climate change (they are fully aware of what is going on in the Arctic). It's clearly another case of riches now trumping the need to do something for tomorrow.