The real evnorionmental question, according to Rex Murphy.

Visit http://CanuckPolitics.com for more.

February 1, 2007 - "Is the moral weight of our example worth the immidiate real costs on our economy and our lifestyles ... do we believe our moral leadership is worth the public and private costs of providing that leadership?"

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Canada
• environment
• climate
• greenhouse
• politics

[wasabikidd]

Fuck yeah rex.

Hit the nail on the head as usual.

Thank you for your consistently constructive framing of complex public policy issues!

[ClownFight]

I like this guy, he cuts through the crap. In Australia we'd have the same impact on global warming as Canada yet we're told if we don't follow the Al Gore party line we will perish in a slightly-warmer-than-hell on earth. Meanwhile Super-Polluters China and India have no responsibilities to slow down under the Kyoto protocol and we have to pay THEM because of our miniscule carbon emmissions.

Armageddon Inc... Somethings not right here

[535a]

Why argue within the matrix when the whole idea is fundamentaly flawed. the carbon tax is just to channel more cash to less people. greenhouse effect is a pile of poo! look at the planet venus. runaway greenhouse effect was an alteration to explain the inabillity to predict and explain the temperature when velikovsky did both along with the atmospheric compositon. Also to point out that they agreed that little to no greenhouse effect could be realized under such dense cloud cover! mariner2 probe

[biozen]

As much as like Rex, I think he's wrong on this point. I would love to see him debate the other side of the medal... that progressing to a green economy would be much more beneficial to Canada that the status quo, on social and economic levels, and whether its environmentally necessary or not..

[Canadianhefe]

If the entire population of the world was wiped out today from this earth, we will still experience global warming.....  Why.....

It's a natural cycle and we have little to do with it.

Don't wory about it and just relax...

[101101101777]

Maybe people love alarmist scenarios like Y2k and apocalyptic movies

cause they're 9-5 lives are so boring.

To save the planet the whole system needs to come down so people can radically change how they think good living is, and have that living not supporting entities that pollute and ruin the bio-sphere

[OAbrey]

As do many other countries in the world who have significantly less space... but more efficiency, more guilt, and far more hypocrisy.

Go figure

[OAbrey]

Canada, the land of the north, so dependent on fossil fuels to keep warm for over 6 months a year Is expected to be the fall-guy. We are expected to have the global footprint of places like Brussels? I don't know why we don't give our head a shake.

Because of the Cult of Climate Change. we have been the whipping boy on this. Americans want us to build more parks, protect more forest to assuage their conscience for their indulgences.

[OAbrey]

I agree to some extent with you Rex. Costs to adapt to change are far smaller than those to make a meaninful change.

Canada, one of least densly populated nations of the world, strewn out along the US border like beads, or babes huddling for warmth, is expected to devastate itself and show the world how to do it to their economies too.

[jmay2002]

HELL YEAH, Rex hits this one so freaking far out of the ball park! You can care about the environment without support the concept of Global Warming!

[StoogeWatcher]

Here's my question: If global warming is such a threat, why do rich "environmentalists" still fly around in private jets?

[AnatomicalDeadspace]

I disagree that there is a "public cost" associated with conserving energy - this is a common mantra spewed by the AGW denialists - that the economy will suffer if we try to cut CO2 emissions - total nonsense.

Since when does not driving unnecessarily or not turning up the heat or hydro cost us more money?

The true costs to society are incurred when we waste our limited resources carelessly and poison our planet. North Americans consume much more than they need to.