Where do we stand in the world and in Canada? Here are Greenhouse Gas emissions in tonnes per person for some countries during 2023 (including CO2, CH4 and N2O, and land use change, reported as CO2 equivalent). 2024 data are not yet available.
Australia 22
Canada 20.4
Russia 18.5
USA 17.2
Norway 12.8
China 9.8
Sweden 6.7
UK 5.7
France 5
India 2.9
(source Our World in Data*)
Australia 22
Canada 20.4
Russia 18.5
USA 17.2
Norway 12.8
China 9.8
Sweden 6.7
UK 5.7
France 5
India 2.9
(source Our World in Data*)
Conclusion, Canadians are not among the good guys. Can we do better? What's the plan?
Liberals, what's the plan?
Conservatives, what's the plan?
NDP, what's the plan?
BQ, what's the plan?
Greens, what's the plan?
Premiers, what's the plan?
Mayors, what's the plan?
Hey Canuck, what's the plan?
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Berkley Earth Global Temperature Report
Do These Politicians Understand Carbon?:
David Suzuki and Ian Hannington, November 2024
Good News or Bad News: Just Have a Think,
Dec 2024
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Fossil Fuel Use in Industry: Just Have a Think,
Jan 5, 2025
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Do These Politicians Understand Carbon?:
David Suzuki and Ian Hannington, November 2024
Actions For A Healthy Planet: United Nations
How has climate planning fallen so behind when Los Angeles is burning up?
ReplyDeletePoliticians have promoted "the economy" to the front place, Of course they are responding to people/voters. But it is discouraging.
Thank you for your comment. Perhaps we are in a feedback loop where neediness and threats make us neurotic and suspicious so we withdraw from the larger collective into smaller, more trusted groups that reinforce our self-interest. Then because the here and now is more important within a smaller group, we make selfish choices that increase climate threats elsewhere and later. This might go on until elsewhere is everywhere and later is now. The neuroticism is intuitive, emotional, instinctive, irrational. We are equipped to suppress or modulate all of that with rational choice, paying attention to reliable information, reordering our values to include elsewhere and later, expanding efforts to the global scale, making a plan, acting, noting consequences, changing the plan. Sorry, I can't resay everything I have ever said in a reply. Baby steps, with satisfaction when we improve things and learning when we don't.
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