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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This is more than a bit unfair. Canada's electricity consumption is flat and is only 11% higher than in 2000. We've got no need to increase our generation and India is growing at 13% per year and they're still nowhere near what we use per capita. They're the second fastest growing solar installing country behind China and are installing hydro and wind as well much faster than we are. Would you propose those Indians finally getting access to electricity just.... wait a decade?
We emitted all that CO2 to get to the lifestyle we now maintain and have installed lots of hydro over time as well to get to lower CO2 generation. We currently emit 8 times as much CO2 per person as they do, so I'm not sure this is fair at all. We absolutely can still try to have our house in order as we're seventh highest in the world per capita.
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Not sure I get your post.
I've long argued that we can't possibly expect countries like India to forgo using coal for energy production just because it isn't 'green.'
They are doing exactly what we did.
My problem is that we aren't helping them move to LNG faster considering LNG is a proven coal replacement.