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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com |
“But our population is so small, we’re not contributing much anyways. Go talk to China!” they then say. Again, NO. We Canadians have some of the highest per capita emissions in the world, and our national cumulative emissions add up to 2% of the total. That’s enough to make us #9 globally.
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Katharine Hayhoe
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“But that carbon tax is useless,” they counter; getting to the real objections, driven by solution aversion. Again, NO. This meta-analysis of 21 policies finds that "introducing a carbon price yields immediate + substantial emission reductions despite the low level of prices." We just need more!
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Kari G Elliott
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And I don't want to keep beating this drum, but encouraging more work-from-home instead of forcing public servants to commute unnecessarily is a simple, popular step towards reducing emissions.
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Kari G Elliott
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We are also well positioned to make huge changes. Build better transit in urban areas, build good interurban rail, build wind and solar farms - if we had the political will, we could be leading the pack in climate mitigation.
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Nalin Ratnayake
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My experience has been that even fellow Americans try to make that argument. I like to remind them that a significant chunk of the emissions from Asia are due to our consumer demand - we outsourced the pollution resulting from our standard and mode of living to there, and then claim it's theirs.
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