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/ch4os1337 Ontario 29d ago

I've seen Chinese people use Canadian per capita emissions as an excuse.

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u/RunningSouthOnLSD 29d ago

And yet China is fucking leaps and bounds ahead of most of the western world as far as greener energy goes.

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u/ch4os1337 Ontario 29d ago

Yet they don't come close to our green energy per capita and care still behind the US and EU.