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Originally Posted by Bownesian
We Canadians still use double the energy per capita than the average German and four times the worldwide average.
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Sure. But we could be just as pro-environment and we would still have a higher per-capita carbon footprint than Germany.
1) Canada is cold -> more heating
2) Canada is big -> more transportation
I mean, if we wanted to reduce our carbon footprint we should probably start my getting rid of the fly-in, fly-out communities in the North. Germany doesn't have those.
As for the worldwide average, there are tons of places that care less about the environment than we do, but their economies are less developed.
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Originally Posted by Bownesian
I have faith that consumption will go down in the long run (because of market forces) but I also believe that we will burn every last barrel of oil in the process. I'd rather that we did something about it now while energy is cheap like building a bunch of wind and nuclear power generation capacity but that will happen in the long run, it'll just cost a bunch more 20 years from now.
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We will not burn every last barrel of oil. Oil become too valuable to burn before then because it has other uses. Plastics, pharmaceuticals, etc.