How Canada Is A Climate Villain

And how people are fighting back

The average Canadian emits 15 tonnes of CO2, and Canadian banks are the #2 financiers of climate change

Canadians like to portray themselves as reasonable people, but they have oil on their hands. Canadians are only just behind the US in per capita CO2 emissions — 15 tonnes per person. Of the 33 banks financing climate change, five are Canadian. Not bad for a small country. Very bad for humanity.

In fact, by some measures, Canada is a net beneficiary of climate change. Being a cold-ass place, climate change will make Canada warmer, and create more arable land. Melting ice caps make its northern seas more navigable. In fact, some Canada’s like former Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver point this out as a plus.

Paradoxically, Canada is imposing burdensome costs and regulations to try to prevent what for us would be beneficial warming.

Unfortunately, at only 1.6 percent of global GHG emissions, Canada cannot achieve a measurable impact on global temperatures, even if it met the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target, which would devastate our economy. (Financial Post)

The argument is that we didn’t start the fire, might as well light a joint on it.

This sounds cynical and insane, but it does describe the current Liberal government’s policies. Despite all their talk about climate change being…