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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I too have a hard time reconciling the fact that it really doesn't matter what Canada does while India and China are doing what they are. But at the same time, if you're letting countries with terrible policy dictate our own, that seems to be a bad idea.
Just imagine if Canada had massive scale child labour and people we're fighting to get it removed, the equivalent argument would be:
"It doesn't matter if Canada bans child labour, there will still be millions of children in China, we might as well benefit from it."
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This is also a bad analagy, if Canada had child labour and wanted to ban it, we could actually accomplish that by banning child labour. The goal is acheivable based on actions of Canada.
The phenomenon here is global, Canada can ban emissions outright but that does nothing to stop climate change.
What we should be doing is working to improve our economy, so that we can build dams/flood mitigation/carbon capture systems / greenhouses etc once climate change occurs.
Look at the data, climate change is happening. The biggest man-made contributors will continue to pollute, we will not be able to stop before the 'point of no return'. Shutting down Canadian economies may give us warm fuzzy feelings but it does nothing to deal with the actual impacts of climate change, which is what the real issue will be.