The world is on fire. Why is Canada considering massive new oil drilling? | Conor Curtis and Tzeporah Berman

A Norwegian oil company wants to drill 73m barrels a year off the coast of Newfoundland - the equivalent of adding 7m gas cars to the road

Coal and other fossil fuels are choking humanity". Those were the words of Antonio Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, in response to the sobering recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which warned that the world has a small window remaining to act before irreversible and catastrophic impacts are locked in.

People around the world are already paying the price with their lives and livelihoods. In 2021, the 10 biggest extreme weather events cost $170bn in damages.

Conor Curtis is a digital communications coordinator for the Sierra Club Canada Foundation and a researcher on climate change impacts and policy that affect his home province of Newfoundland and Labrador

Tzeporah Berman is the international program director at Stand.earth and the chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative