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Originally Posted by StickMan
Per Capita is a stupid argument when the problem is global emissions. It only matters where the majority of emissions come from. A guy sitting on an island having a camp fire has bigger per Capita emissions on that island then anyone in China, should we focus on putting out his fire?
I think you don't understand how the carbon tax is not about reducing emissions, it is about tax revenue for Trudeau. A real climate plan would look at the global problem areas and try to help.
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Okay cool, so Canada isn't the problem, we don't have to do anything.
The US is a big emitter, let's focus on them.
Oh, but California is only about the size of canada, and they use way less heating than we do, so since they are only the same size as Canada California is isn't part of the problem.
Texas too.
Also Florida...and Ohio...and Michigan.....
I love your logic, we just reframe the problem until we can completely shirk responsibility!
Your argument boils down to "No one can fix the whole problem, so everyone should ignore doing their own part."
As to the second point, okay cool, how can Canada help on the global scale?
Do we send money to China to move away from coal? Where do we get that money?
By doing our part to reduce our per capital emissions we are looking globally, by making changes in the only part of the globe we can directly control.