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In the run-up to the recent 30th annual United Nations “global climate action” gathering — this one in Brazil — former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna declared the crisis far from over.

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“Climate isn’t going away … it’s getting worse all the time,” she said in an interview marking the release of her third and final report as chair of the grandly named United Nations High-Level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities.

“Once again, the past year broke temperature records,” McKenna noted in the report. “Too many countries have failed to deliver on the promises they made in Paris, and emissions continue to rise, making it more likely we will overshoot the 1.5 C target. Around the world, we are witnessing the devastating impacts of climate change and an accelerating biodiversity crisis driven by deforestation.”

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Elsewhere, she pointed to the latest Canadian summer of wildfires: “What about everyone in Canada who cares about climate? Eighty-five thousand people were evacuated from their communities this summer.”

What indeed? McKenna is a climate change warrior, and each of her assertions may be entirely accurate. What’s up for grabs is her conclusion: that now, more than ever, the world needs to forge ahead with the same battles, along the same lines, using the same tactics that have........

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