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Originally Posted by Azure
I mean as a country our emissions are meaningless.
And then people say 'oh per capita we are bad.'
So 'per capita', what difference will one person make? What difference will half the country make if they reduce their own emissions 50%?
Its a meaningless number.
Instead of bickering around on stupidity like that, we should be focusing on large scale projects and technology to reduce emissions, and export that technology to the entire world.
Such as LNG production at lower emissions than anyone else.
And if the government would regulate the flaring, we would do that better than everyone as well.
You can go on and on and on. Canada has the capability to develop technology to reduce emissions on a massive scale, but instead we bicker around with stupidity such as interprovincial trade restrictions. Selling power to the US instead of to provincial neighbors. Not allowing pipelines to be built resulting in provinces importing dirtier, high emissions oil. Etc, etc.
As Brian Cox said in his own favorite succession line, "I love you, but you aren't serious people." Explains Canadians perfectly. For the most part great people, and great to hang out watch a game and have some beers with. But not serious about our role in the world.
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But our emissions are not meaningless, this is the point that is missed by everyone. Climate Mitigation isn't a specific goal or line we have to stop before, it is a cumulative project where millions of small efforts need to sum up to something larger, and even if some of the changes are small to small to have a real impact the very step of making the change enables a structure that others can follow. We don't need some magical project that is going to stop 25% of global emissions, we need to find 50% of emitters who can participate in a 50% cut.