We just got rid of the carbon rebate (clowns that we are). We’d better fucking make the cost of industry polluting very high.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2025
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But the tax is axed, right?
Short sighted fucking idiots.
Thanks to everyone forcing return to office! Great job guys!
I need a truck for my job. I had a 2011 Ford Ranger for YEARS. When that kicked the bucket in 2022, I was forced to by an F-150 and it's an absolute monstrosity. It is massive and has LESS box space than my Ranger did. I don't why it's near impossible to buy a small truck with a full sized box in North America.
Something else at play here is accuracy in reporting. Canada has strict reporting regulations, which means the pollution reported matches the actual pollution pretty well (but this ignores that Canada releases a LOT of CO2 into the atmosphere through natural processes as well — forest fires and permafrost methane off gassing for example).
Also, worth noting that where I live in Canada, there’s lots of public transit, minimal food waste, single use plastics aren’t legal to sell, and neither are single use plastic shopping/grocery bags. A lot of people drive electric vehicles, and electricity is generated by hydroelectricity.
Most of the pollution (and there IS a lot) is industrial, a lot of it related to tar sands oil extraction.
We have been for a long time, this is not new.
I would say that we continue to do nothing despite the dire forthcoming consequences, and that should be reported on ad nauseum.
Maybe Danielle Smith could fly around the US a few more times.
As I suspected, Australia celebrates overshoot day before Canada (in other words manages to be a worse polluter).
Interestingly, Uruguay, followed by Indonesia are best.
https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/
This data is expressed as a date. From the site:
Every year, a Country Overshoot Day marks the date when the planet’s annual biocapacity budget would be used up if everyone on Earth lived at the same level of consumption as the residents of that particular country.
Not all countries represented. Would like to see every country on there.
That's because not every country produces the data. We don't (yet) have a "global" order that requires a minimum standard of compliance and at the rate that the Orange is destroying everything he touches, I doubt we'll see it in our lifetimes.
OK. I though it was a calculation based off of reported and estimated CO2 emmisions.
Soon to be corrected. As the USA's population seeks asylum, the per capita pollution will naturally be less. Two problems solved.
Good old statistics! Always solving the big problems by showing the data in a different way.
Solving problems the Excel way.
“The solution to pollution is dilution”
Probably similar issues to Australia. Large country, small population.
Yeah, but in both cases a majority of the population lives in the moderately dense line between the two major cities in the south east.
Without knowing too much about Canada, probably also not enough investment into rail transport?
Worse, they have been taking after the US and only allowing single family homes and car based infrastructure. They also elect idiots like Doug Ford.
Doug: “I feel so safe on this bike in the city of Toronto”. Also Doug: “my commute is extended a few minutes, fuck the people that actually live in the city, I’ll remove the bike lanes with fake data and by riling up other lazy fucks like myself so I can drive my car from the suburbs into the city quicker”
There is a whole channel “not just bikes” about non car based transportation and public spaces that commonly cites Canada as basically US 2.0 (from a guy that used to live in Canada before, and still has family there).
The only top hdi country without HSR.
That's why USA gets so much metal from canada, so you guys can pollute and usa looks greener.
You can see the so2 levels on windy and no2 for that matter all over the mines up there.
I don't think the US cares that much about looking (or being) greener
well they did, but now definitely not.
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