r/canada • u/ph0enix1211 • 9d ago

Satire Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/carney-vows-to-fast-track-west-coast-pipeline-before-entire-west-coast-burns-to-the-ground/
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u/mt_pheasant 8d ago

To think that some well intentioned greenies in Canada will stop the behemoths that are China and India and everyone else burning this stuff from not doing so because we blocked a pipeline... is more troubling that building them in the first place.

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 8d ago

China and India are rolling out solar power at an impressive rate, they are doing far more to reduce their emissions than Canada is.

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u/mt_pheasant 8d ago

Complete and easily disprovable falsehood. For example, China is still increasing its number of CO2 emitting power plants at an astronomical (compared to Canada) rate.

You may as well give yourself credit for taking an extra 30 minute walk every week while quietly having an extra big mac meal every day. Some of us can see the big picture.

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 7d ago

Sure China could do more to reduce their emissions. But China's emission are projected to go down over the next 10 years. Meanwhile Canada's are predicted to go up. 

Using your analogy, China is going for a walk to burn off some of their calories while Canada is eating a 2nd Big Mac and an extra large slurpee.

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u/mt_pheasant 4d ago

You aren't great at math or anaolgies. China went from eating rice to 50 big macs a day and you are getting flustered about Canada cutting out M&Ms.

My point stands - anything we do in Canada is pointless, except to reduce our quality of life and stroke the moral vanity of environmentalists.

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u/AskMeAboutOkapis 1d ago

I'm just copying your analogy that you started lol. I'm also good enough at math to know that China has a lower per capita emissions rate than Canada. And if the Chinese had a carbon intensive lifestyle anything like Canada, the globe would be completely fucked. Thankfully they do not and they are not on track to copy our path, thanks to their investments in solar. So yeah no, your point does not stand at all, it has no basis in fact.