At the premiers’ climate summit this week, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall brought up a statistic that has received a fair amount of attention lately: Canada’s emissions account for fewer than two per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
He’s not wrong, but used as an argument against doing our part to combat climate change, his point does contain some flawed logic.
“Showing leadership matters, signals matter, examples matter, but the numbers are the numbers,” Wall said.
Essentially, Wall appears to be suggesting that because no single action by itself will solve the problem, we shouldn’t take that single action.
Applying this logic to other (Read more…)