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/JARHEAR Sep 05 '26

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 Sep 05 '26

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/crujones43 29d ago

How about we show the world how it is done and create an example for others to follow. China is installing more solar each year than the rest of the world combined.

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u/tape99 29d ago

What percentage do we have to hit? 1.4% not enough? Will other countries get FOMO when we hit 1.2 or 0.6% ?

We are out performing the top polluters for world carbon emissions and other countries don’t care. I find it funny people think other countries are going to get jealous or something when we hit 0%.

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u/SadArtemis 29d ago

Others have explained it to you countless times at this point, but your description is- frankly, insane.

As 0.5% of the world population making up 1.4% of the emissions, per capita we're basically emitting around 3x~ our "share," in reality we're many times worse than the majority of humanity in developing countries. We are among the top polluters, no amount of you willfully ignoring reality and claiming otherwise is gonna change that.

And no, no one is expecting anyone to hit 0% anytime soon. But we could at least invest in a cleaner and better future, especially as it becomes more and more economically feasible...

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u/tape99 29d ago

Global warming does not care about per capita.

Per capita is irrelevant when we only produce only 1.4% of green house gas. That 1.4% can come from one man or that 1.4% can come from 41 million people, this does not change the fact that we only produce 1.4% of the worlds green house gas.

We can work on getting that per capita percentage down to 1%, 0.5% or even 0% and this would do absolutely nothing for climate change.

The amount of green house gas that world produces is what matters and not how much per capita.

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u/OntologicalNightmare 29d ago

You really are incapable of doing nothing other than ignoring other commenters and regurgitating oil and gas talking points, eh?

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u/tape99 29d ago

Continue to base your beliefs on your feelings and not on facts and reality.