This action is a huge blow to the tar sands overall, and if the other pipeline gets too many set backs the tar sands might actually fold from lack of investment.
I had literally zero hopes for Biden, and this is already a net good. Consider me surprised.
Doesn't actually matter though. Don't treat climate change like a sport, it is not about keeping a score of the little bit of inconsequential actions every individual important actor/government does and check the scores at the end. Nobody is going to give a fuck when it turns out we failed and this changes nothing in that regard.
If every government was frozen and did nothing for the next 20 years we are still fucked. It takes more than just "not doing things". We need large scale direct action.
The pipeline is bad, but it is step on the accelerator as the car already went off the edge of the cliff bad.
Well then by my calculations, the Chinese army tree planting campaign is running up the score on us