23 Oct 2018
China contributes thirty percent (30 %) of the world’s
carbon dioxide emissions, and India contributes seven percent (7 %).
Meanwhile, Canada contributes 1.5 %. Neither China nor India are obliged
to reduce their emissions under the Paris agreement until the year 2030, and
they are not even obligated to reduce their rates of increase of emissions
until that date.
Is there not a reporter in this country who is prepared to
ask Prime Minister Trudeau to explain what he hopes to accomplish in terms of
climate change by levying a carbon tax that might reduce Canada’s emissions to
1.4 % or 1.3 %, when next year increases from China or India will easily swamp
that reduction?
I get that the political elite get to thump their chests and
proclaim their moral superiority by imposing a carbon tax, but can they not
admit that as a practical matter reducing Canada’s emissions entirely wouldn’t
matter a wit to world emissions?
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