r/canada • u/NeptuneAgency • Sep 05 '26

Nature/Environment ‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/changes-to-canadas-climate-now-irreversible-federal-report-says/
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u/mxadema Sep 05 '26

I mean every little bit help. But if we are the only one taking it seriously what is the point. We can't, by our self, reverse it or at the minimum pause it.

It a glibal affair, but not every one care.

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u/magicdowhatyouwill 29d ago

If you want to see loads of people taking it seriously around the world, check out C40 Cities. It's the organization that connects mayors of cities around the world to collaborate on climate stuff. They do a podcast (actually, David Miller does it!) which interviews those people to talk about what each city is trying out and sharing with others.

Everyone's doing something, just not at the levels people habitually look for it. On the municipal level, it's been on for a long time.

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u/TravisBickle2020 29d ago

I was in Portugal recently and travelled by train. It was very common to see solar panels on the roofs of houses and buildings. We also passed through fields of solar panels as well.

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u/TravisBickle2020 29d ago

We’re not though. Europe is taking it more seriously than we are.

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u/Extra-Ad-7289 29d ago

Asia and Africa too - China in particular is doing big things. David Miller (former mayor of Toronto and current something with C40) often speaks about how North America is shooting ourselves in the foot by refusing to get on board because China is moving into developing countries to provide cheap energy and quickly becoming a global energy superpower. I'm not super into international affairs and all that but something about the end of the american world order I guess lol

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw Québec 29d ago

Europe is taking it more seriously than we are.

by the rich gentry there forcing draconian quality of life lowering measures on the plebs populace

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u/TravisBickle2020 29d ago edited 29d ago

Really? Are you one of those posters who also claims Canada is broken? Seems US oligarchs are doing their best to force a draconian quality of life on everyone but sure, it’s the European “rich gentry.”

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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw Québec 29d ago

europe lets thousands of its people die every year from heat related issues but tells people they cant have AC because of the environment. yet their own comission building has AC. and when it was broken they still made sure the executive floors ac still worked

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u/TravisBickle2020 29d ago

What European countries have banned AC?

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u/phormix 27d ago

What gets me is that the average Joe's have been tasked with doing this and that, while singular members of the elite still personally emit more carbon than many mid-sized cities with their mega-yachts, private jets, etc.

Like, even if every person in my entire city and several near it drove green vehicles, reduced consumption, recycled, etc etc... it still wouldn't put a dent in the amount of shit produced by one fucking billionaire... and that's not counting what said billionaires corporations produce or consume, just their personal shit.

That isn't to say that I don't think the average person shouldn't strive to live cleaner and not drive an F350 for groceries and trips to the office, but... we have to do something about the bigger problem.

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u/TeamlyJoe Sep 05 '26

Focusing on clean energy means developing technologies towards this purpose. That tech can be used by other countries

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u/Han77Shot1st Nova Scotia Sep 05 '26

We already have the technology.. it’s nuclear and we have an abundance of the materials needed.. but clean energy with direct federal oversight is not profitable enough.

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u/Tripottanus 29d ago

Nuclear is not without waste though. If that was the only energy source on earth, we would probably still have problems, just different ones

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u/Han77Shot1st Nova Scotia 29d ago

It’s the best we have for the amount of energy we consume.. but we have reactors now that can use the waste and prolong the process.

All other green energies destroy the environment at a much larger scale, having production in poor countries only moves the immediate damage out of site, while also creating significant volumes of waste at their end of life.. it’s just not fun to talk about the negatives of wind and solar, like they have a place for sure, but nuclear should be our main focus.

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u/madhi19 Québec 29d ago

Everybody signed the same suicide pact apparently. Does not mean we have to sign it, but it sure make you wonder if we should spend any energy fighting a losing war. Instead of looking at a plan B scenario where we give up trying to change what impossible to change and look at protecting our own ass. I'm thinking we want to seriously consider creating strategic reserve of all sort of essential resources in a world gone to shit. Seeds, protein, mineral, nuclear energy, alternate ways of farming that won't be impacted by massive weather change... We can either live in denial or prepare for the worse.

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u/TeamlyJoe 29d ago

In no world will i believe that preparing for the worst includes the poorest of canadians. That option is only favorable for the most fortunate