[Locke]

Originally Posted by heep223

You have to realize though, we have an enormous country and a small population. A large portion of emissions comes from burning fossil fuels for transportation. That's why you also see other sparsely populated, large countries like Greenland and Kazakhstan up there are well. We simply have to burn more fuel to move around and ship things around the country.

I think Canada's like 15th in the world if you look at it per capita, behind basically all of the middle eastern countries, the US, and a few other randoms.

So if you really want to talk apples to apples, you'd have to make an adjustment for the sheer size of the countries IMO. Also, our very cold climate is a factor because heating our buildings I think is around 15% of emissions.

It's not as simple as you make it out to be. The one simple fact that we know is that we are a very, very small emitter on the global scale. So his initial point stands really.

Trudeau is just hurting the economy and not making any difference in the global scheme of things. It's all politicking.

Hes putting the Ideal ahead of the Practical while ignoring the Logistics. Much like our current Governments.

Realistically speaking Canada could get our emissions down to 0, live in igloos, burn whale oil for warmth and dogsled from town to town and literally no one would notice any difference in World-Wide emissions.

So why do we bother?