[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Do you think that Canada not building infrastructure for carbon-based energy is helping the global climate crisis? I don't think it is.

I think every developed country should be exclusively using renewable and nuclear sources for electricity. But until that happens, it better that democratic countries use Canadian based carbon energy instead of Russian, Saudi, Iranian, Qatari, etc. At least we will take some environmental precautions compared to those regimes. Coincidentally, Canada can also supply fuel for nuclear reactors.

Is that something we tell ourselves to make us feel better? You can argue that, from a human rights perspective, Canada is more socially responsible. But from an purely environmental standpoint, how do we know Canada is contributing less damage to the environment with our oilsands extractions vs. what the Saudis or Russia's doing extracting their oil in less environmentally damaging ways?