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🇨🇦 is the world’s supply chain.
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Perhaps, even, to challenge itself to be the world’s smartest natural resource nation.
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Rather than seeking consensus, we drive wedges.
Rather than building upon each other’s ideas, we deny them.
Rather than informing and educating, we misstate and misinform.
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The first Canadian Prime Minister to acknowledge the threat of climate change and to pledge reduction of GHG emissions was Brian Mulroney, in 1992.
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Yet we treat this as though it were not our political reality.
This is not characteristic of a smart conversation.
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As if GMG emission goals they “adopted” were not in fact developed by, inherited from, the previous Harper Government.
As if Scheer has not explicitly re-endorsed them.
This is not characteristic of a smart conversation.
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“They didn’t do anything about it”.
“They” didn’t - or don’t - have “a plan”.
“We haven’t achieved anything.”
“We won’t make our goals.”
Each says these about the other.
Fact is, first three are false.
The fourth is up to us. All of us.
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But did you know: we now produce 10% less GHG per person than we did in 1990?
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We haven't, and in fact we have a great ways to go to get from 716 Mt in 2017 to our Paris goal of 511 Mt in 2030.
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First, to understand change is achievable without sacrificing economic growth: cleaner growth is real, in fact happening here for a decade.
Something the world's smartest natural resource country might embrace.
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A smart conversation would use such knowledge to inform discussion of future options, rather than just yelling at each other rhetorically.
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Canada now has one of the world’s cleanest electricity grids, and still getting better as we approach the 2030 coal phase-out deadline.
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Or Harper get credit for making it a national mandate?
Or Trudeau, Notley, others for shortening the phase-out.
Unacknowledged amidst our wedgy partisan politics.
Not smart.
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I know plenty of enviro activists, industry pros, and policymakers who are pretty smart about this.
But those smarts can conflict, and/or be obscured/exploited by politics.
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Heavy industry?1996? What caused that?
Could it be combatting acid rain, CFCs, other pollution?
Back when prople were saying “no plan” etc?
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As with coal transition, that smart regulation can and does work, for one thing.
As does cap-and-trade: one of the first such programs developed specifically for the (successful) effort against SO2.
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I like Norway, but let’s claim that space for Canada.
Speaking of which, Happy 🇨🇦 Day!
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