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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
I might be misunderstanding you.
Your statement was:
I also suspect that this is why people in poor countries who pump far less greenhouse gases into the air, are far poorer, and are far more likely to be negatively affected by global warming might resent Canada's rather embarrassing greenhouse gas record.
I read that to mean your point was a citizen of a third world country would resent Canada because of climate change. I think that is absurd.
If your point is that a citizen of Canada might resent current government policy, I don't agree but i'm prepared to listen to your point and acknowledge that a Canadian could take that position.
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Sorry, I've sort of been all over the place trying to respond to several posters at once.
I would stand by both statements (above.) In terms of people in the developing world resenting Canada's climate change record, I'm not sure that statistics exist (or at least I haven't read them.) However, if one accepts the following two propositions, I think it becomes a very reasonable inference to draw:
A. Canada has received a significant amount of bad press recently over its climate change record (I can provided numerous examples from leading international sources such as the Guardian, etc.); and
B. People in the South (developing states) are the ones most likely to be affected by climate change and the ones who are currently the most concerned about climate change (for instance, see the study I posted earlier).