The BBC reported today that the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) released its biannual "Living Planet Report," and the news is not good. Basically, if global consumption levels continued at the current rate, two planets would be needed to meet global demand by 2050. The WWF concluded this by estimating each country's ecological "footprint".
Here's what is interesting: If one looks at the "footprint", one notices that a big chunk of the footprint comes from fossil-fuel utilization.
And guess what? The Canadian Government had earlier announced that the "Clean Air Act" would halve Canada's 2003 emissions by 2005. (Oh,I get it now. This is MUCH better than the Kyoto protocol that the Conservative government had us bail out of, that would have required us to stick to 1990 levels.) Under the previous government, the Liberals pledged to spend $10 billion over seven years to help Canada cut its average greenhouse gas emissions by 270 megatonnes a year from 2008 to 2012. I wonder if anyone did the math to compare the two... but the difference is that now Canada will not be bound to its Kyoto commitments, and it will be "business as usual" for the foreseeable future (or until the next election).
IMHO, I think it's already too late... the human race missed its chance to keep the planet in good health...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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