Quote:
Originally Posted by milomilo
Bill Gates is right, many people are naive to the scale of the problem and their involvement in it. But what is your point? That because the problem is large and difficult, Canada should not bother even trying to solve it?
|
To educate Milo, to educate.
A carbon tax or other vilifications of CO2 is not going to work when our modern economy depends on processes that emit carbon. The irony of posting about CO2 on this website dedicated to building skyscrapers should be apparent?
Wind turbines and solar panels are not substitutes for fossil fuel power generation, they are niche sources of power. The only scalable, dispatchable, low carbon power source is nuclear power.
Canada is not an economic island that can go off on its own way, we belong to a world economy, we are inexorably interconnected with all other economies. If we don’t want to make steel here or produce oil, those productions will move to some other country, no net gain for the planet, but plenty of hurt for Canadians.
Slow change through improvements in efficiency are happening but are offset by growth in population.
There is no fix to global warming, we can only adapt to the consequences. It’s much easier for wealthy countries to adapt than it is for poor countries.......so the solution will not be found by making ourselves or other countries poorer.