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Originally Posted by Hakan
The next step is making serious, painful and costly policies that will curb our emissions.
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I'm more of an advocate of technological spending to help reduce emmisions. Your had statement would work if it was implemented WORLDWIDE, and this is why.
As an ex-manufacturer who sent our entire line to China, one of the "benefits" we recieved was no longer having to put up with Environment Canada. Now I'm sure EC doesn't care all that much that we're not here anymore, and we save a load of money not having to control/catalogue/report emmisions, but what happened to all the pollutants they were controlling? Did they simply disappear? If you make it so incredibly hard for a manufacturer to make money, he'll leave and move the problem to another country, where those emmisions may or may not be controlled.
IMO, for any plan to be effective we need to ask if we would rather have something controlled (within reason) in our back yard where you can see exactly what is going on, or send it somewhere else where no one knows or cares what's happening. EC made it fairly clear that they would rather us send the problem elsewhere, which is acting totally regionally and not globally. To me this is no different than shovelling garbage into my neighbours yard. Yeah, I could recycle it, but why would I when I can pay him half of what it costs me to do so? Sure it's going to be a problem when his yard fills up, but what do I care? I won't be living there when that happens!!!
I'm more of an advocate of technological spending to help reduce emmisions. Spend the money coming up with better, more efficient ways to drive cars or manufacture steel.