Re: “McKenna warns of hot future in Victoria,” April 17.
This article really amuses me. To think that Victoria (or even Canada, for that matter) is responsible for its own climate is seriously ludicrous.
The world population is currently in the 7.7-billion range. Canada has a population of 0.037 billion, which is a minuscule fraction (0.02 per cent, if I did my calculation right) of the world’s population. India’s and China’s populations are at 1.4 billion each.
If we are carbon polluting at 10 times the rate of the world, we still are a small fish in the sea at 0.2 per cent of global emissions. The carbon tax’s mission, I thought, was to reduce carbon emissions by proliferating renewable energy infrastructure. Well, where are the Canadian wind farms, the Canadian solar power farms, the Canadian tidal current installations, etc.? They simply do not exist.
It seems the carbon tax is a cash cow for greedy governments. Enough said.
Bruce R. Morrison
Colwood
