Letter writer ‘wrong’

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Control agendas’? (July 20).

The writer states that our wildfires are not unprecedented at all. He is wrong. This year is the most land ever burned by wildfires in Canada’s history, data from Natural Resources Canada shows.

Previous metrics peg the highest number of hectares burned in 1989 with approximately 7.6 million hectares. This year it is already at 10 million hectares and the fire season is not half over.

The writer also states that Canada’s emissions represent a mere 1.6% of man’s CO2 emissions which is true. He fails to state that Canada’s population is only 0.5% of the world population. This means that per capita the average Canadian has three times the emissions of the average person in the rest of the world.

We certainly cannot bring our emissions down to zero, but we should aim to bring it down a lot lower than 1.6%.

Brian Paleczny,
Inverhaugh