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Canada Pension Plan Investments has dropped a net-zero by 2050 target for carbon emissions, according to an annual report released on Wednesday, following several Canadian financial institutions that have backtracked on climate commitments.

Several major Canadian banks, including BMO, TD Bank and CIBC, have also backtracked on climate commitments this year, announcing they were leaving a Net-Zero Banking Alliance backed by the United Nations.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hi its only May and my province is already literally on fire to the point where my sports games are getting cancelled from air quality cconcerns.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You would benefit from learning what hyperbole is. Then you would not use hyperbole to counter hyperbole.

And everyone else downvoting a person using proper English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Can you explain how what I said was hyperbole? Because it was all factually accurate.

100,000 hectares of my province burned last week because of drought conditions and unseasonally high temperatures. The resulting smoke caused my sports games to be cancelled. How can facts be hyperbolic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The disingenuous use of the word literally to provoke an emotional response.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But my province literally is on fire - that's not hyperbolic. We have 20,000 people being evacuated as their towns are (your favorite!) literally burning down.

The guy I replied to is the one who started using the word "literally":

Because the world wouldn't be literally on fire, that's hyperbole.

My province is literally on fire.

  1. "Nothing is literally on fire."
  2. "My province is literally on fire."
  3. "You're being hyperbolic because you used the word literally"
  4. ??????