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A coal-powered power station emits smoke in Datong, China's northern Shanxi province, in November, 2021.

Canada is embracing the carbon business again. New oil pipelines are almost certainly coming and the Alberta tar sands will expand to feed them. In the European Union, natural gas plants are under construction and coal lives on in some countries.

All in all, this is bad news for the health of the planet, but can you blame the overhauled Canadian and European energy plans? No Canadian or European leader will admit so publicly, but it appears that they realize that any of their own carbon savings would be more than offset by the still-rising output of greenhouse gases in China. U.S. President Donald Trump figured that out long ago.

The corporate bosses in the EU, home to cripp

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