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Originally Posted by Shawnski
FireFly, you really have to put Britain's situation into perspective. First, they are a tiny, tiny country. There are certainly advantages they could exploit in terms of transit that we would never, ever be able to realize.
Weather impacts? The Brits do not have the extremes we do, thus do not have as significant an issue with dealing with heating and cooling costs.
They most certainly do not have nearly the volume of raw material industries as we do (mining, forestry and of course petroleum).
They are packed so tight together, just the number of bum rubs heats most neighbourhoods effectively.
Comparing Britain to Canada is sheer nonsense. You are smart enough to understand that one. To me, it's like Mobility before the Clearnet merger. Mobility covered one heck of a lot more area, did it far better and with happier clientelle. But Clearnet was in that small concentrated area. Merger comes, and the Clearnet philosophy goes nation wide. Yuck. we then find out that it takes four of them to do one of our jobs, and not even as well. The grass was definitely NOT greener in that one.
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Nonsense? I didn't compare Britain to Canada, I used it as an example to prove that using less doesn't necessarily mean losing money. Why can't we look at what Britain has done, and use what would work in Canada? 15% reduction in emissions is amazing for ANY country. There has to be some ideas that we can implement. How about focusing on energy efficient homes to reduce the effects of weather extremes? As for the raw material industries... you do realize they burn lots of coal and manufacture lots of stuff? I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but that kind of activity pollutes quite a bit. (Yes, I was being facetious.)
Seriously, there are 60 million people in the UK, all using hairdryers and making garbage. Yes, I get that there are differences, (which is why I didn't compare the two, rather used the UK as an example that it CAN be done if we're innovative,) but that doesn't mean we can't learn anything from them.
And your Telus/Clearnet example was lame and bogus. Yeah there are going to be difficulties when one company buys another out, but the problems Telus had were not necessarily with trying to implement the policies of a smaller company. And either way, Telus has had the lowest churn in North America for years, so they have to be doing something right. Regardless, as I said, it's about looking for examples, not copying exactly. But keep making excuses so we can keep polluting.