Throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, there were repeated episodes of what we describe today as “dancing mania.”
Inexplicably, hundreds of people would start dancing for days on end, many to the point of exhaustion, collapse, and even death. Numerous theories have been offered for why this happened.
Many point to the communal fears and widespread belief in the supernatural rampant in the Middle Ages, acting as an accelerant to the dancing mania. What is known is that what we would today describe as an insane behavior happened over and over again.
Today, dancing mania aptly describes climate mania, or, if you prefer, climate hysteria, globally and in Canada.
The United Nations keeps issuing increasingly apocalyptic reports of imminent climate catastrophe, along with dire warnings we’re so far behind reducing our industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the level that’s needed to save the planet, that we’re racing towards doom.
The UN did it again Tuesday in its latest “emissions gap” report. It warned global emissions are at record levels, still rising, and we now have to do three to five times as much to reduce them as was agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, to avert a climate apocalypse.
The report says Canada has fallen far short of reaching both its 2020 and 2030 emission reduction targets that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to in that accord.
That is, we’re falling far short of the completely inadequate targets which the UN now says must be replaced by much deeper cuts.
Meanwhile, Trudeau, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, and the Liberal chorus assure us Canada is on track to meet its emission target for 2030, having stopped talking about 2020 for the obvious reason that it’s only two years away.
Their claim is utter nonsense.
Anyone who has run the numbers knows Trudeau’s national carbon price of $20 per tonne of emissions starting Jan. 1, 2019, rising to $50 per tonne in 2022, is completely inadequate to achieve our Paris accord 2030 target, let alone the far more stringent targets the UN says are now required.
The reason Trudeau and McKenna won’t answer questions about what carbon prices they would impose post-2022 is that they would have to be in the hundreds of dollars per tonne, implemented immediately, to meet the UN’s latest climate targets.
That’s not going to happen because it would be political suicide.
So the actual position of Trudeau and McKenna is that in the face of what they tell us is an imminent climate catastrophe, they’re going to dink us with an ineffective carbon tax as the world goes up in flames.
Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives say their solution is an as-yet-unrevealed plan that is better than the Liberal one, without a carbon tax, even though carbon taxes are the most effective way to reduce emissions.
Thus it can fairly be said that our two major political parties have been infected by climate mania, similar to the dancing mania of the Middle Ages, where people inexplicably behaved in insane ways.
If Trudeau, Scheer et al. really believe the world faces an imminent existential threat from climate change then what they’re doing, and more significantly not doing, makes no sense.
The only way it would make sense is that if they actually don’t believe this and consider climate change to be just another political issue where the public needs to be deceived, managed and spun.
Because that’s how they’re behaving.
Read more at Toronto Sun
“That’s not going to happen because it would be political suicide.” No. it would be suicide. Fixed it.
Canada likes and seeks its government to do everything for them. They protest that they want the government to do more and more.
Careful what you ask for. The government may not be as smart as you hoped, and do more and more to send the whole frozen country down a rabbit hole.
The only thing saving Canada from complete fiscal collapse is that the Left is split between the Liberal party and the far left NDP. They haven’t united, thank God. You’re kinda right, Dave, Canada looks to the government for too much. Interesting that imminent climate catastrophe isn’t enough for them to drop their differences. Telling.
Goldstein comes to the correct conclusion. If a small percentage of voters can be tricked by politicians who feign concern whilst kicking the can down the road , it can change an election. Cynical, but I hope that Scheer can outwit Trudeau’s back room boys.
Canada needs better leaders then the crooks like Trudeau the crook who is running their country straight into the ground to appease the Useless Nations