America’s Hat — like many other places brainwashed into believing that the possibility of a slight temperature rise will doom all of humanity — has adopted “green energy policies” that favor expensive, unreliable sources of power (wind and solar) over less expensive, highly reliable sources like coal, gas, and nuclear. I witnessed this first-hand driving through southern Ontario last year, where there are some sixty continuous miles of spinning bird-choppers lining the highway between Toronto and Detroit.
Bowing at the altar of Gaia comes with a significant cost. In Ontario, the province where the Gaia Agenda has been pushed to California-style extremes — energy rates have skyrocketed. And now many Canucks are finding themselves having to choose between having back-bacon in the fridge and heating their homes.
Ontario premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne, via their 2009 Green Energy Act and other poor decisions, have pushed many of the people they govern into dire financial straits thanks to their activist agendas.
“They live as if it’s Cold War Russia,” Miranda from Toronto told me during a phone conversation about her parent’s energy woes. “They use a pellet stove and propane heating. They put construction-style plastic on the windows and extra insulation.”
“They’re considering using food banks this winter,” she said. “I work in international development in third world countries and I’m starting to see the stuff here that I’m seeing there.”
Not everybody is doing so bad. Canada’s Carbon Tax “Slush Fund” promises to become a big, fat gold mine for politically connected cronies and rent-seekers.
Play Socialist Games, Win Socialist Prizes.
Even if you do buy into the “Carbon Dioxide is the Devil and Industrial Civilization is Evil,” it doesn’t have to be this way. A Dutch inventor claims to have developed a technology that pulls pollution out of the atmosphere. The details are a little sketchy, but surely building large-scale atmospheric processors in heavily polluted cities is an achievable technology if we decided to do that instead of following the Green Path of energy poverty.
Oh, Canada. They sort of, kind of, mostly would be of a different point of view if they didn’t have the United States to undergird them.
I think of all the great inventions that have come out of Canada and their wonderful influence on the arts and culture and their contributions to science and industry, and I realize it must be because I am either schnockered or dreaming.
I am so delighted that they are going over-the-top green. Time for them to put a lid on their oil and gas and leave it in the ground while they figure out how to harness wishful thinking and run a Ministry of Feng Shui off of it.
Is it possible that living in northern climes creates socialism? The “Greens” after all are really just busy-bodies with a Napoleon complex. I have no fight with smart use of resources and keeping tabs on those who enrich themselves by polluting or “over grazing.” But making a living and running a government making sure that Gaia isn’t pissed is a flat out scam backed by gullible, over-sensitive lemmings who believe in the power of other people’s money.
They should put their money where their mouth is by stopping the export of tar sand oil. Then they can watch their health care system collapse.
I like windmills — in the right places. I don’t even mind a little financial manipulation to encourage them in the start-up phase. I do object to using financial and tax-gaming against market forces for the pursuit of solely-political ends. It still should be about what’s effective, efficient and economical — not someone’s G*d-Dam*ed Feelings being offended.
“And now many Canucks are finding themselves having to choose between having back-bacon in the fridge and heating their homes.”
Problem solved: Outlaw fridges!
For nearly 200-years, Canadians have gotten-away with a lot of Loonie Ideas — and survived — due to the giant cushion and safety-net to it’s South, the United States, so they tend to get smug and sloppy at times.
In the battle against global warming, Canadians struggle to heat their homes…just think about that for a bit.
this is what happens when you do what the leftists tell you. this is exactly what the left intended to happen. there are no unintended leftist consequences
Canada’s contribution to the global GHG emissions is less than 1%. 0.6% to be exact. Canada’s Northern Boreal Forest is a C02 sucking machine which comprises 60% of the area of the Country. If the UN gave Canada so-called carbon credits for their Northern Boreal Forest, like they do the Brazilian rain forest, the Country would have a significant negative carbon foot print. Regardless, any carbon tax or McGuinty, Wynne, Liberal, green scam is not about climate it is about making themselves and their buddies rich at the taxpayers expense.