Trudeau getting seriously stupid about climate change

 Vincent J. Curtis

15 Dec 20

RE: Trudeau getting serious about climate change.  Hamilton Spectator editorial of this date.  The editorial closely follows my ‘an admission of failure’ piece, except in reverse.  It even claims unnamed economists who support the tax, as compared with my named source who is deeply skeptical.

Justin Trudeau isn’t getting serious about climate change with his promise to raise the carbon tax to $170 per tonne, he’s getting seriously stupid about it.  The dramatically raised tax is nothing but a show of moral narcissism that will have no impact whatsoever on the world’s climate.

Let’s start with the fact that Canada produces less than 1.5 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, while Chine produces 30 percent, the United States 14 percent, and India, 9 percent.  Both China and India are unrestricted until the year 2030 in the amount of CO2 emissions they are allowed to increase, and both countries are building coal-fired power plants as fast as they can.  Whatever savings Trudeau can beat out of Canada will be eclipsed in less than a year by new emissions from China and India.

The United States, however, exceeded its Paris Accord reductions through the miracle of fracking for natural gas, and is the only country to better the Paris Accord.

The carbon tax is aimed at the heart of both Alberta and Saskatchewan, which didn’t elect a single Liberal in the 2019 election.  In punishing his political opponents, Trudeau is also going to harm middle class people in Ontario, because the food they eat will get dramatically more expensive.  The food grown in Western Canada requires massive, diesel powered machinery to produce and to truck to the supermarkets of Hamilton.

Moral narcissism is going to hurt Canada plenty.

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