Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a …

George Monbiot
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Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works. ✨ Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling. www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2009.
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