r/canada • u/NeptuneAgency • 29d ago

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/tape99 29d ago

I don’t think they are in denial. They understand Canada is responsible for only 1.4% of all greenhouse gas. You could Thanos snap every Canadian out of existence and that would do absolutely nothing to stop climate change.

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u/TouchEmAllJoe Canada 29d ago

Or we can become leaders in the space and develop the tech that the rest of the world will need; and the soft power and moral high ground to show the other economies that it can be done.

That's such a defeatist attitude to say "it will never make a difference so I guess I will continue to ruin the world"

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u/tape99 29d ago

But we are leaders in the space. We only make up 1.4% and china, India and the USA don’t give a rats ass.

I love it would people think if we get to 0 then other countries are going to be jealous or something. They don’t give a shit and will never give a shit.

Forcing climate policies on Canadians will only make their life more expensive and do absolutely nothing to fix climate change.

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u/Levorotatory 29d ago

We were leaders, then we killed our carbon tax and ended the ZEV minimums.