[acottawa]

I think the problem is that nobody is willing to lead a low-carbon lifestyle. Not the politicians, bureaucrats, professors or NGO workers that like to talk so much about the climate. They like their business trips, conferences in exotic locales, and vacations in distant destinations. Remote communities complain about pipelines but want to keep their diesel-based lifestyles. Upper middle class people in certain areas might be willing to accept a token carbon tax that will not have any measurable effect on the climate, as long as it doesn’t affect them very much, but would not accept any serious measures.

If the climate advocates really believed their rhetoric about impending doom they would be proposing efforts to restrict immigration, discourage procreation, limit global trade and travel, rationing and pretty significant restrictions on most sectors of the economy and most personal activities.