Canada quits Kyoto Protocol
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Thread Topic: Canada quits Kyoto Protocol
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tongue AdvancedCanada sucks.
The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions to combat global warming BTW. Canada quit because their prime minister Stephen Harper is a corporate schill.
More specifically, Canada is home to large reserves of oil sands, and the process of separating oil from sand has a high carbon footprint. Oil companies have been clamoring for greater access to the oil sands for years, and now Canada is basically going to give them what they want. -
....Okay, not cool.
It's true, Stephen Harper isn't the brightest crayola in the pack. No one likes him. End of story.
But Canada is still a great place :) Health care is the only suckish thing, but that's about it...
I'm not too knowledgeable on the subject, but quiting the Kyoto Protocol doesn't seem like a bright idea, especially for Canada. Where I am at the moment, we still don't have snow. That's a big, BIG problem. Not just that, but the melting up North is causing polar bears to migrate south, which is actually very, very dangerous, no matter how silly it sounds. In some Northern towns in the west, Halloween is actually the most dangerous day of the year with the most cops on patrol, since children are known for being attacked and sometimes killed by polar bears.
Scary stuff. -
My problem with Canada is the giant wait list for surgery and shiz. other than that, I like the free health care.
but goddamn. Just when you think Harper couldn't get any dumber. -
I don't like the health care in Canada, not just because of the waiting lists (which are ling as f---) but also because it's not as precise.
My friend was sent to the Shneider's out in Montreal, which is supposed to be one of the "best" in the country, and they messed up her morphine doses. Her Mom had to tell them, since she saw the irregularities and checked the papers.
I'm sorry, but that's just sad. -
ling as f--- xD I'm sorry I found that funny.
So...you hate it cause of a bad experience ._. even the best can f--- up sometimes you know.. -
tongue AdvancedYou know what we call that in America, where 49 million people are uninsured and the health care industry is hopelessly inefficient? A minor inconvenience.
I'll take a system where everyone is gauranteed some kind of health care over a system like the one in my country, where money determines whether you live or die. -
No, I was just giving an example :P
But it;s true, America actually does have better healthcare but it's not as...convenient. Or fair.
Not trying to dish on Canada, me loves it here :3 -
tongue AdvancedAmerica's health care system is better if you are part of the richest 10%. Otherwise, you're screwed. People here go broke because they get sick. My family spends half of its income on health insurance. Health care in this country is too expensive for the poor and middle class.
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Shouldn't every developed country be in this? Canada only quit because of the 14 billion it would have to spend, or virtually take all of its cars off its roads. Each one was unrealistic, but they could have paid it, or quit, as they decided. Canada's a great country, but with them producing some of the biggest carbon emissions, it was wrong of them to back out becauese of a fine, all of which would've gone to helping the planet.
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tongue AdvancedWhoa, it's someone who actually knows what is going on!
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Could have paid it? Possibly.
But our economy's kinda being run down to the ground at the moment. -
tongue AdvancedHarper is pretty tight-fisted when it comes to money, hence the reason the health care system has so many bugs at the moment.
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Our economy is sucking it, when we're a world power.
Even with everything we have, we still suck: On the verge of a possible Great Depression 2? A recession we just got out of? And the leader of CO2 emissions because of our futile tries to get America running by building more. -
Doesn't every health care system?
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America, India and China, three of the country's with the biggest economical impact and which rank as the three countries emitting the most greenhouse gases, didn't sign it originally. Their agreement will only take effect in 2020.
Our economy IS running down, and by signing the Protocol, it is more expensive. Quitting it was the smartest move for us, considering we stuck to it for the past 15 years or so. Jobs were lost, prices had to be raised, buses taken off the road, production was cut down. It received complaints and caused pleny of inconveniences, but we stuck to it anyway. Quitting was the smartest move, apparently.
We had been talking about all of this in Geo, coincidentally enough. :P
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