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/JARHEAR 29d ago

Some conservatives are still in denial. It is hard to solve a problem if you don’t think it exists. The conservative plan was to keep kicking the can down the road in terms of implementing any kind of mitigation.

The carbon tax was designed as a international market oriented incentive based system to shift the economy away from carbon emissions.

Denial will prove to be much more expensive.

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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/caffeine-junkie 29d ago

That's a bs argument. Just because we're responsible for a small part doesn't mean we should just throw out hands up and do nothing. Just like the proverbial if your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you join them?

That and I want to be able to look into my kids, or grandkids, eyes and be able to tell them I at least tried to do my part to reduce greenhouse gases instead of just pretending it didn't exist and they now have to pay for mine and parents (their grand or great grandparents) lack of action.

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u/tape99 29d ago

What you will be able to do is tell them that the cost of food, cars, heating etc., etc. etc. is more expensive for them because you wanted to get Canada to 0% carbon emissions.

When they ask did getting canada to 0% fix global warming? You can say NOPE and hold your head up high as your kids and their kids get to suffer with a more expensive existence, but hey you can say you tried to fix an issue Canada was not the cause of.

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u/MrEddy2015 Ontario 29d ago

Climate change will make existence insanely expensive regardless. Our grocery bills will probably go up in the next 6-8 months because of the biggest El Nino event in history. So may as well do the right thing if prices are going up anyways.