Maverick Citizen Op-Ed: Plea from climate activists: No more false hope, Mr President

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For those worried about the climate crisis, it might be a relief to have a president who appears to take climate change seriously. However, appearances can be deceiving.

, President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined a suite of actions on climate change the government is supposedly taking. On the face of it they seem impressive, but in reality the government is failing dismally to address the climate crisis.

In a recent meeting, the Department of Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries revealed that they cannot even release a timeline of when the commission will be established. The joke is that commissions are where action goes to die. Yet, we don’t even have a timeline for the establishment of the commission.

At the same time, the DMRE are enacting a rapacious extractive agenda, sacrificing vast swathes of the country in the name of fossil fuel extraction, often

 

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