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Originally Posted by Tinordi
The baked in ignorance of the Canada should do nothing crowd is makes me despair.
China invested over 200 billion in the last five years in energy efficiency (Canada's allocated 128 million over the next five years) and over $100 billion in renewable energy last year.
India built 20 GW of solar energy in 2015 all while having a lower energy consumption per capita than the African continent.
To ignorantly boast about how little everyone else is doing is just full bollocks.
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Yes, but at the same time they're also developing their fossil fuel resources as well. They're working on renewables, while not cratering their entire economy by going cold turkey on fossil fuels.
You know, the path that everyone here is advocating for. A smart, sustainable path to lessen our reliance on fossil fuels, and grow our renewables.
For example, the only numbers I can find is that Alberta invested almost a billion dollars in 2014 on a wind farm. Ontario in the same year invested 4.5B. As you should probably know, since you are one of the un-ignorant, the provinces do the major lifting for this, and not the federal government.
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