Dear Editor:
Re: Tipping point, editor’s note (April 18).
Ron Moore thinks Canadian governments need to do more to reduce carbon emissions because we are the fifth highest per capita emitters in the world – higher than even China. Could that perhaps have something to do with the fact that Canada is the second-largest and second-coldest country on Earth with a relatively small population?
Environmental consultants Sustainable Consulting, using 2017 data, determined that when measured by emissions per square kilometre, Canada was 129th out of 184 countries, with lower emissions per square kilometre than any of the world’s top 10 emitters, except for Brazil.
The Trudeau government’s carbon tax, which also increases the price of almost everything, including basic necessities like food and housing. And the government’s 100-plus programs, on which it is spending over $200 billion taxpayers’ money to address climate change, are making almost everyone poorer, and for what?
Even if Canada, with its 1.5% of global emissions, were to meet its emissions reduction targets, while two of the world’s largest emitters (China and India) keep increasing theirs in order to produce and sell the products we buy from them, will that have any effect on the weather in Canada or anywhere else?
I also found the editor’s note that Climate the Movie “repeats many debunked and misleading climate change denial claims” to be inappropriate. The movie features a number of prestigious names in science, including a 2022 Nobel Prize winner for physics. There are plenty of respected (until they deviate from the official narrative) scientists who don’t buy into the myth that we are or will soon be experiencing unprecedented catastrophic global warming caused by CO2, requiring drastic measures.
Unfortunately, because of cancel culture, their voices are seldom heard.
Henry Brunsveld,
Puslinch
*Editor’s note: The editor stands by the aforementioned note.