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Originally Posted by Burninator
How is Kyoto going to cost Alberta thousands of jobs?
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think about this statement for two seconds....
1) money will have to leave the economy to pay off Russia when Canada does not meet its targets
2) carbon emission levels are directly tied to industry. More specifically, in Alberta the oil industry is the greatest emitter of carbon gasses. In order to decrease level of emissions, we would have to do one of two things. 1) scale back the industry or 2) be lest cost effective with oil exploratoin. When companies are less cost effective that leads to less profits. When large companies have less profits, who goes first?
Both of these situations will involve a loss of thousands of jobs. I think it is a sacrifice Canada may have to make at some point. However, it is totally unfair that Canada should have to make the sacrifice while everyone else does nothing. Also, I do not want to see one hard earned dollar go to Putin and his government.