First posted: Saturday, July 15, 2017 07:42 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, July 15, 2017 07:46 PM EDT
No kids,
no cars,
no meat,
no flying!
And even that won’t save you from man-made climate change
If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really wants to save the planet from man-made global warming, he should tell Canadians to stop having kids, don’t drive, don’t fly and don’t eat meat.
Those are the four most efficient ways of reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change in the developed world.
By contrast, the “solutions” pushed by Canadian governments and educators, such as recycling and switching to energy efficient lightbulbs, while they may be “feel good” exercises, are insignificant.
This as reported by University of British Columbia PhD student Seth Wynes and Prof. Kimberly Nicholas of Sweden’s Lund University, in their paper, “The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions” published last week in the journal, Environmental Research Letters.
The biggest saving by far comes from having no children, or fewer of them.
Every unborn child would save the average Canadian family 58.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, compared to 0.213 tonnes by recycling.
Going carless saves 2.4 tonnes, compared to 0.1 tonnes by replacing incandescent lightbulbs with energy efficient ones.
Avoiding one transatlantic flight per year saves 1.6 tonnes of emissions, compared to 0.247 tonnes by washing clothes in cold water.
And switching to a plant-based diet saves 0.8 tonnes of emissions, compared to 0.21 tonnes by hanging your clothes out to dry instead of using a dryer.
Despite this, Wynes and Nicholas report, “we find that 10 high school science textbooks from Canada (covering seven provinces, with 80% of the population) largely fail to mention these actions — they account for 4% of their recommended actions — instead focusing on incremental changes with much smaller potential emissions reductions.”
Further, “government resources on climate change from the EU, USA, Canada, and Australia also focus recommendations on lower-impact actions.”
Thankfully, the researchers don’t recommend our governments force Canadians to have smaller families, although this is a common refrain among radical environmentalists, whose love for humanity is surpassed only by their hatred of people, save for themselves of course.
In that context, consider China’s “basic dictatorship” (which Trudeau says he admires), which only abandoned in 2015 the infamous “one-child policy” it imposed in 1979.
But that didn’t stop China from taking credit at international meetings on climate change for decades, arguing its one-child policy had prevented 300 million births, the equivalent of the U.S. population, and saved 1.3 billion tonnes of industrial carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, based on global average per capita emissions of 4.2 tonnes.
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Every unborn child would save the average Canadian family 58.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually
This is predicated on the assumption that the family doesn’t spend ANY of the money they ear on ANYTHING else, EVER, since they don’t need it to feed and clothe the child. Yeah. They’ll just put it in the bank. No extra trips, no new cars, nothing. Right. That’ll work.
This statement in the study didn’t make sense to me. Canada is about 14 CO2 tons per capita. So a couple having first child goes from 28 tons per year to 87 tons per year? That just defies logic. Do they need 25 cars to drive the toddler around? Maybe they’re counting the extra Methane emissions from the tyke?
“Every unborn child would save the average Canadian family 58.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually”
and
“Going carless saves 2.4 tonnes,”
A baby causes more CO2 emissions than a car? Annually?
I am surprise they do not advocate killing our youth yet… Mind you Libs are pushing Pot laws…
The boy child is all for reducing the number of children you have in order to save the planet and all for importing Muslims for diversities sake (or whatever). How many children does the average Muslim have? Think rabbits.
Oye.
The Trudeau picture is the perfect illustration of the green globalist hypocrisy!
Okay Global TV Vancouver on weather. Vancouver think LA when it comes to “climate change”. Anyhow BC is having a major forest fire season, before that it was raining and flooding, lots of snow, cold temps in the winter. You see the weather has been getting crazier, just crazier I tell ya. Well here is the cause to all that, realigning jetstream. The meteorologist, Christie Gorden seems to imply this “weather” is caused by “climate Change”. So there you have it all this freaky weather simply explained, hey Christie you nailed it. No other information required.
I always voted CBC #1 in fake news in Canada but I will know place Global TV Vancouver in that spotlight.
http://globalnews.ca/bc/program/global-news-hour-at-6-bc
Look for, jet stream changing, on global web page. I guess the jet stream has never changed before.
The jet stream constantly changes. The jet streams look fairly normal for this time of year. The summer season seems to be progressing normally, although a little cool so far, but that may be changing as a high-pressure system builds over the central U.S.
High-pressure over the U.S. is normal during summertime as the jet stream moves north up along the U.S./Canadian border. The jet stream is what moves weather fronts across the U.S. If it moves north into Canada, then that allows high-pressure systems to stall over the U.S. which causes high heat underneath the high-pressure system.
What separates a normal summer from an extremely hot summer is how long the high-pressure systems remain in place. If the jet stream doesn’t push them out, they don’t move much and the heat builds up underneath them. If the jet stream pushes on them, then they won’t remain over one spot too long and it won’t get all that hot.
Here is a link showing high-pressure building over the central U.S. (marked):
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=-109.74,60.25,296/loc=-98.757,37.680
Why Globull BC is getting all excited is because of all the fires in BC this year. Me thinks they drink too many high caffeine beverages.
Stay home, use birth control, eat corn and beans…sorry, too much carbohydrate. Not enough fat. Our neural sheaths (white matter) depend on the insulation. Fat also modulates the toxic effects of sugar, particularly high fructose corn syrup, which is ladled into everything from cheese doodles to mayonnaise.
Current human superstitions in rough order of perniciousness:
Carbon dioxide. If it worked like the possessed believe, the oceans would have boiled off in the Cretaceous.
Fat. Midriff protuberance is far more from carbohydrate.
Sodium. Chloride is the culprit.
Nah. Le’s drain the swamp instead.
no retirement plan => need kid support to survive during old age => 4 or 5 kids per family
Methink this is the equation for human population growth
It was Lorrie Goldstein’s editorial opinion, purposefully provoking it seems to me, concluding with the following:
We could concentrate on expanding the practical clean and green energy sources we have now, in addition to hydro power, which are nuclear energy and natural gas, the lowest emitting fossil fuel, instead of wasting our money on wind turbines and solar power, which are decades away from being able to efficiently power modern, industrialized economies like ours on demand.
Or, we can go on pretending to tackle the problem by electing politicians who are pretending to solve it, while picking our pockets clean.
Why not just build a couple of nuclear plants and live like modern humans?
+97
It is too expensive and takes a long time.
“For all the costs of going green — estimated by Ontario’s auditor general to total $170 billion over 30 years”
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/boondoggle-how-ontarios-pursuit-of-renewable-energy-broke-the-provinces-electricity-system/wcm/a54c7399-be71-47d0-893b-95e2b9b8f2f9
“takes a long time”…takes a long time for what?
In Ontario, we could have had 170 billion and 30 years – that is a lot of reactors.
Only due to ignorance and fear. Can you imagine, in today’s world, if someone were to propose that anyone could drive up to a station and, without training or supervision, be allowed to pump several gallons of a highly flammable substance into their vehicle then simply drive off with it? I don’t think that would be allowed.
Tom, it isn’t in Oregon.
“It is too expensive and takes a long time.”
Only because of the opposition of ignorant, uninformed bedwetters like you.
Justin Trudeau should lead by example, go on live TV and kill his wife, his child and then himself. Show the world how it is done. Instead he jets about the globe, living a luxurious life style and sucking up resources while spewing tons of pollution. What a scumbag.
Clearly we have too many PhD students …
So are we supposed to explode the children or drop them off skyscrapers with the polar bears?
To all tree huggers, drink this and you will save the planet
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9YiFHM94vSc/VlWWpdrYxvI/AAAAAAAAAAs/14nbG2o1iuM/s1600/arsenic.jpg
Why are ‘we’ humans here? That is an oft-asked question with an answer that is often rooted in one’s religion of choice, seems to me. But my answer comes from observing every other creature on this earth. What are all creatures busy doing, all the time, while alive? Surviving to reproduce. Like all of earth’s life, we are here to survive and reproduce, and as humans, hopefully to prosper. That’s the mandate. If you don’t reproduce, you are not fulfilling your natural-given purpose. Anyone who claims that human reproduction must be curtailed in order to save all of nature, ‘the planet’, needs to do some serious soul searching. There is much self-delusion, self-importance about our purpose, our place in the natural order of things.
This is why being green is so bloody easy. You can spout your green creds knowing that this is socially advantageous and ignore what really needs to be done. The people that have a backbone and understand what really needs to be done are either deniers (because they found out it was bullshit) or far left people that want to take down the west.
If you run into a green, tell them that society has to reduce all of the 4 things mentioned to make a true impact because anything else is irrelevant, then ask them how they plan on forcing people to do what is required.
Every unborn child would save the average Canadian family 58.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually
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Where is my carbon tax credit for every child I don’t have? Isn’t the UN giving away money to people to not cut down trees or build a factory, based on how much CO2 it saves? So with the new carbon tax, Canadians should get a tax credit each year they don’t have children.
At $30 a ton, that is $1750 for every child you don’t have. National Geographic says men product 1500 sperm per second, which a whole lot of children they are not having.
Sigh. Universities are certainly headed downhill. They’re clearly not even remotely considering that Canada’s immigration policy is geared to maintaining, if not increasing, the Canadian population. Most “Canadians” i.e. the descendants of all the people that moved here from just prior to WWI to shortly after WWII aren’t replacing themselves in terms of having children. You want to see a Canadian family that is ignoring the notion of having less children, look at those that have immigrated to Canada in the last ten years.
No kids? Tell it to the Pope, who pretends to be an advocate of extreme efforts to stop global warming.
It’s worth noting that ” People of the Book” of fundamentalist persuasion, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, share the goal of reproducing their flocks at maximum rate. Don’t know enough about Hindus and Bhuddists to comment on their position.
Heaven help those of us accustomed to doing our own thinking if all the fundamentalists were to realize how many biases they share and combined forces to wipe out their common enemy.
As for savings from plant-based diets – if you hunt wild game for your larder, as I did for three decades, there’s no environmental advantage to switching to a vegetarian diet.
No kids, no cars, no meat, no flying….
and what’s worse, no personal jet packs and flying cars! Damn those regulators!
While the elite tell the unwashed masses the need to not reproduce and better yet, commit suicide (now), what they AREN’T telling the unwashed masses is that the elite have been ‘taking care of business’ for at least 75 years now. Most people simply aren’t aware of it because the World Health Organization (and similar unelected bureaucratic organizations) haven’t declared an emergency. And an emergency hasn’t been declared because the elite are DELIGHTED with how the plan is progressing. No crisis here, folks.
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/sperm-counts-in-the-western-world-have-declined-nearly-60-percent-since-the-1970s