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This is what real climate leadership looks like; actually having the courage to assert that you're going to halt on big emissions sources. Meanwhile in Canada
by Tiktaalik 6y ago
This is what real climate leadership looks like; actually having the courage to assert that you're going to halt on big emissions sources.
Meanwhile in Canada you have the government claiming it's a climate leader because it'll plant trees and ban plastic straws meanwhile expanding development of oil sands. It's completely disingenuous.
Software engineers with any experience in profiling should know how to make big gains on a problem quickly. Find the biggest problems and cut those down to size. Fiddling at the edges isn't gonna get us there.
- jlos 6y agoWhile I don't disagree with the Canadian government's messaging being disingenous, 7% of the entire Canadian GDP came from just resource extraction in Alberta (not to mention the ancillary industries surrounding oil and gas). Recently, that made it the largest industry in the country, even ahead of banking and financial services. [0] Compare that to Denmark which employs about 2000 people in resource extraction [1] [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oil-and-gas-gdp-growth-may-data-statscan-1.4768508 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oil-and-gas-gdp-growt... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Denmark#:~:text=Denmark%20imports%20around%2012%25%20of,energy%2C%20not%20just%20electricity).&text=Coal%20and%20all%20other%20fossil,20%25%20of%20the%20electricity%20production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Denmark#:~:text=Denm...