Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the Carney government is not serious about climate change. May, who supported Carney's budget in December, has since questioned the prime minister's word after accusing him of a climate policy flip-flop.

"If we're serious about emissions reduction, then we have to actually revisit some of the measures that have been eliminated since (Carney) took over," May told The Canadian Press.

"They're miles from hitting any of the Paris Agreement targets, and the prime minister did recommit to me on the floor of the House on Nov. 17 that this government is committed to the Paris Agreement and achieving its targets. So the emissions reduction update, the so-called climate competitiveness strategy — there's lots of highfalutin titles for what boils down to...(no) climate plan.""

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[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Are any party running on taking away municipal zoning laws and forcing density and mass transit? Or what about ending imports from China and forcing reliability standards in the goods we buy?

If not I won't believe they are actually environmentalists, they are grifters and opportunists. They will gladly run mass immigration into massive urban sprawl, ballooning traffic and emissions, as they then tax fuel usage to raise home values near jobs.

[–] AGM@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In what way would ending imports from China reduce emissions? Giving up buying from the most efficient manufacturing ecosystem in the world that also happens to be electrifying and moving to nuclear and renewables at an unmatched pace is not going to increaseefficiency. What more efficient alternative would we switch to? Canada will not be more likely to hit goals by moving currently outsourced industrial manufacturing from an extremely effecient ecosystem with economies of scale to somewhere like here that has no comparable efficiencies of scale, grid development, or ecosystem development. We would need massive industrial expansion here, including with our grid. Dramatically expanding hydro is going to require huge new projects in places that are harder to develop than our existing hydro. Trying to build out solar while not buying from China? Let's see how efficient that is. We should be taking advantage of China's efficiencies to complement and build out our own systems, not cutting them off. It's one planet we share, and efficiencies and harm reduction in the global manufacturing ecosystem is what we should aim for, which requires leveraging complimentarities, not reducing them.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/China-electricity-prod-source-stacked.svg/1920px-China-electricity-prod-source-stacked.svg.png

I think its a lot more coal. I am also unsure why we would carbon tax ourselves, making our own production more expensive, but maintain free trade with the largest coal user on the planet with little to no environmental laws. If you saw and smelt the rivers in China I think you'd realize what a dirty place it is.

Heres a nice looking documentary on it that I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN0AVXZ_RrQ

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

Without adding coal to the mix, China doesn't have a reliable and independent way of increasing its energy generation to the necessary levels. However, China is also essentially the producer of all solar photovoltaics on Earth, the biggest producer of wind turbines and nuclear reactors, and it's currently building the largest hydro plant on Earth. China is also the main supplier of electric batteries enabling electrification of buses and cars, and pioneers the installation of ultra high voltage electric transmission.

I've been to China and visited the yellow river, I don't know what you mean by the smell. I live in Spain, you should visit the Tajo river going through Toledo and smell it before you judge China. If you're from the US you could visit Flint.

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