Surreal climate calls

Vincent J. Curtis

18 March 24

RE: Climate woes need solutions, not slogans Editorial, The Hamilton Spectator 18 Mar 24

RE: Let’s all be climate role models. Op-ed by Tricia Clarkson, a climate change columnist & co-chair of Peterborough Alliance for Climate Action

Canada is responsible for 1.5 percent of the global emissions of carbon dioxide. India and China together are responsible for 40 percent.  Include the rest of Asia, and over half of global carbon dioxide emissions are accounted for.

Canada is not the problem; it cannot therefore be part of the solution; and neither Xi of China nor Modi of India look to Canada, or to Prime Minster Trudeau, as a moral example for anything.

Also, there is no climate crisis. The climates of the world aren’t about to collapse, descend into chaos, or fall into any other calamity.  Winters in eastern Canada are becoming milder, and, so the conclusion is: this is wrong, and something bad must be happening!

Nothing bad is happening; the world isn’t about to end; and even if it were, there’s nothing Canada can do about it.  The call for Canadians to suffer economically because the climate of eastern Canada is improving smacks of an absurd  prudishness, a moralistic zealotry, and, given the statistics above, downright surreal.

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