Canada: the U.S.'s reasonable and progressive populace (which is probably a simple majority; it's the vocal, obstinate, soon-to-be-obsolete conservative and oil monopolists who are the ball and chain shackled to the leg of U.S. progress) is making lion's leaps forward into renewable energy, solar panels, electric cars, and conservation.
That CANADA has watered down its previously reasonable climate plans, and is now not even managing those is shameful. Read below, and the linked article.
This particular Canadian government and these people hampering progress in Canada will have a legacy of shame; both for themselves, and their country. I hope the good people take their elected representatives to task for this poor performance and demand improvement in policy and performance, and that those entrusted with applying the funds and policies set up to combat climate change will DO THEIR JOB.
"....Whatever environmental pressures are underway right now, it’s almost inevitable that they are going to increase with the increase in production,” Vaughan told reporters.
The report was intended to examine Canada’s progress in meeting its targets under the Kyoto Protocol, which calls for Ottawa to cut emissions to six per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. Emissions now sit at 31 per cent above that 1990 benchmark and the federal Tories have abandoned that legally binding international commitment made under a Liberal government in 2002.
But Vaughan’s report went beyond its scope to warn that if Ottawa doesn’t correct the poor management practices that have plagued federal efforts to date, future targets will likely be unattainable — namely the Copenhagen Accord plan to cut emissions to 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020...."
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