As a long term resident of Asia and a frequent visitor to China, Thailand, The Philippines and Indonesia none of this is surprising. The surprising thing is how easily westerners have let themselves be suckered by their leaders into thinking anything the west does will make any difference at all.
make electricity really cheap. Focus on nuclear, deregulate a bit to lower construction costs [2]
promote nat. Gas as a coal substitute
treat our sewage. I think some facilities are planned/under construction... I thought Canada was supposed to be a first world country.
Things that are admirable but not actionable:
Funding fusion research. Fusion would be nice, but you shouldn't make plans around something that hasn't materialized yet. By contrast coal power is still a thing and today we can easily cut those emissions in half with nat gas.
note 1: Taxes make pollution worse by making people poorer. Dealing with waste properly (like recycling, taking trash to dump) costs money; the poorer you are the more likely you'll just dump it.
note 2: Cheap electricity lowers ghg by making EV, and electric heating more attractive.
Just carbon tax Chinese imports and nothing else. Fuck em.
As a long term resident of Asia and a frequent visitor to China, Thailand, The Philippines and Indonesia none of this is surprising. The surprising thing is how easily westerners have let themselves be suckered by their leaders into thinking anything the west does will make any difference at all.
It’s time to wake up.
Duh. Urban ghg come from urban areas.
Ways Canada carbon tax reduces ghg:
Things turdy did/plans that makes ghg worse:
Ways we can reduce ghg:
Things that are admirable but not actionable:
Funding fusion research. Fusion would be nice, but you shouldn't make plans around something that hasn't materialized yet. By contrast coal power is still a thing and today we can easily cut those emissions in half with nat gas.
note 1: Taxes make pollution worse by making people poorer. Dealing with waste properly (like recycling, taking trash to dump) costs money; the poorer you are the more likely you'll just dump it.
note 2: Cheap electricity lowers ghg by making EV, and electric heating more attractive.
And the government operates at 0 cost and 100% efficiency? No, so there is additional cost that needs to be payed for "somehow".
Also sales tax is charged on top of carbon tax - which is not returned. So carbon tax is also an increase of sales taxes.
Also, carbon tax inflates the COST of everything, which causes inflation - which makes the 99% of people poorer.