RE: Study Dumps on Canada
Wow, that's an old report. I thought we dealt with it on here someplace already. Maybe that was another site.
Three things.
First of all, as I mentioned before, our politicians and business leaders use trade and the need for competition as an excuse to let pollution go on. It's not a good excuse, but it works.
Second of all, there is an argument made (one that I don't agree with at all) that you can't measure these things in percentages because the US has more pollution so its easier for them to improve.
It is easier for them to improve. So what? That doesn't negate the fact that we haven't improved.
Third of all, and this one does have some merit, studies like this are often skewed because they report on certain types of pollution and ignore others. Comprehensive reports like the one released by The David Suzuki Foundation (The Maple Leaf in the OECD) are much more valuable because they look at everything.
The Maple Leaf report is also more valuable because it does away with the argument that we have to pollute more because it's cold here. It is colder here than in the US, but The Maple Leaf in the OECD looks at other countries too...not just Canada and the US...so we can see that we are pollution pigs when compared to countries with similar climates.
Wow, that's an old report. I thought we dealt with it on here someplace already. Maybe that was another site.
Three things.
First of all, as I mentioned before, our politicians and business leaders use trade and the need for competition as an excuse to let pollution go on. It's not a good excuse, but it works.
Second of all, there is an argument made (one that I don't agree with at all) that you can't measure these things in percentages because the US has more pollution so its easier for them to improve.
It is easier for them to improve. So what? That doesn't negate the fact that we haven't improved.
Third of all, and this one does have some merit, studies like this are often skewed because they report on certain types of pollution and ignore others. Comprehensive reports like the one released by The David Suzuki Foundation (The Maple Leaf in the OECD) are much more valuable because they look at everything.
The Maple Leaf report is also more valuable because it does away with the argument that we have to pollute more because it's cold here. It is colder here than in the US, but The Maple Leaf in the OECD looks at other countries too...not just Canada and the US...so we can see that we are pollution pigs when compared to countries with similar climates.
