Impending disaster?
February 19, 2008 | 10:36 AM
Cyril Cook
Kevin Taft says “Climate change is real, and it is bearing down on Alberta like a locomotive. We must act, and we must act urgently." And “it’s an issue of national security” that “threatens virtually everything we value in this province."
If that doesn’t scare you maybe Brian Mason and the NDP’s green energy plan document on their web site will. As “glaciers finish melting," it will lead to “much lower lake levels, new tropical disease, more pests like the pine beetle," “tornadoes” and “major flooding of coastal areas” and “mass starvation."
The only thing missing is the beast with 10 horns and seven heads. Can the rhetoric get any worse?
Listening to these two leaders would make anyone fear for Alberta’s future and it should be incumbent upon them to produce a plan to stop this impending disaster. In Kevin Taft’s case, the Liberals are going to stop the locomotive by hitting taxpayers with a $ 1 billion a year solution that includes hard caps on emissions and a hope that employment will shift to new areas of the economy.
Now consider that Canada produces roughly 2.5 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions. Alberta’s contribution would be a fraction of that amount and the Liberals would be proposing to only eliminate a smaller fraction of that yet. Globally, the significance of the Liberal plan would amount to cutting a hang nail off of an elephant, making the whole thing moot, as the China’s of the world continue to increase carbon emissions at ever increasing rates every year.
So either these two leaders are being dishonest with voters or they are severely overestimating the impact Alberta has on stopping the locomotive heading towards us. If not, I’m moving to British Columbia.
Comments: (2)
I agree with Cyril. Untill the U.S. and China come on board there will be no real imporvement. As for Karl..........if that bucket of water was all I had for my family, the choice is simple, I would rather one small building burn than have my family go without.
Posted February 26, 2008 11:49 AM
Or he realizes that it's a global problem and it is only through the weight of many contributions across the globe that anything will be done.
Standing around with our hands in our pockets while the building burns doesn't lessen our responsibility because we only have a small bucket of water.
Posted February 22, 2008 03:39 PM