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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
The problem now is the whole world seems to have this attitude. China says they aren't going to worry about it until the US does, because the US created the problem in the first place. Canada says, why us? We're just tiny and it won't matter. We'll do it when the US/China does it. I'm sure if the US started the ball rolling people would follow, but I really don't see that happening. Someone has to be first. Sure we can't make much of an impact if just Canada does it, but if you get 10 countries with similar C02 output to Canada on board all the sudden you are getting somewhere. Eventually, the last countries to hold out will be pressured into following.
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I don't think that we should do nothing, but I also don't want to see the other extreme (where the environment is leveraged for political gain and we cripple our economy or something just so party can gain power or something). I don't think that the choice is one of the other either; the government should be fostering green tech companies, become a leader in the world from the point of view of leading the people to make green choices and leading in developing new green technologies.. then we still make our impact, stand to gain significantly if we happen to land on a technology which countries like China use, and protect against weaking ourselves in the world economy.