26 Feb 2020
Heather Scofield must have been enjoying a lot of that legal stuff of late, for through the haze she discerns that Canadians have this consensus - that we’re clamoring for a clear and planned transition to a low-carbon economy. Written like an authentic member of the chattering class that knows no world outside of Toronto and Ottawa.
There is no such consensus. Look at the electoral map. It’s almost solidly blue (i.e. Conservative) west of the Ontario-Manitoba border, and east of the border it doesn’t look particularly red (i.e. Liberal) outside of the major cities. Even Liberals understand that conservatives have an allergy to government planned transitions. Transitions that are driven by market forces are one thing, government coercion is another, especially when the coercion is towards some suspect, progressivist utopia.
What is the “low-carbon” economy she speaks of? Does she mean, low-energy? If all our fossil fueled powered things were converted to battery, where would we get the energy to recharge them? There is only one source large enough, and that’s nuclear power. Is there a consensus to a massive construction of new CANDU reactors understood in this consensus to a low carbon economy? I suspect Heather hasn’t thought that far ahead.
Heather, good typist that she is, has no clue how food gets to her local supermarket. She should stick to reviewing books of poetry and leave the hard thinking to those who understand how the world actually works.
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