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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Something obviously needs to happen, both in Canada and globally. How could a country like Canada slash emissions? Serious question.
Non polluting sources of energy need to be readily available to manufacturers, and many manufacturing processes themselves need to be re-invented since they produce emissions. I honestly see global catastrophic climate change happening, and STILL people will continue to pollute.
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The only way a nation like Canada can slash emissions in any significant way IMO is to completely move away from fossil fuels both as an export and as a fuel in general. There's really no way to sugar coat it. Many people that live here and work in the industry don't like hearing it, but I think even most of them will admit that it needs to change in a big way for the sake of long term sustainability. Putting a tax on carbon is nice and all, but it really does sweet dick all to limit emissions in any way. Money is an invisible force we created, but the oil is still burning.
This would really only happen if the world moves that way in general, and I think sentiment here is that, while were not a huge consumer of oil or producer of emissions purely due to our size, we are a significant producer/exporter of the oil and so we do bear some of the responsibility for it's use. And thus, oil producing countries like Canada are the ones that need to take the lead on this, as counter-intuitive as that may be. Otherwise were going to be crying sad panda when everyone else stops (or significantly cuts) using our main resource because there are now alternatives, when we could have gotten ahead of it.