It is hard to understand the…

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It is hard to understand the “Blind view “of our Provincial PM, denying a reality recognized as fragile and dangerous since the 1992 Rio summit (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro).
Climate change is a human-induced process, caused mainly from the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane and fluorocarbons. Poor air quality affect every one of us as well as quality of soil and water.
Burning fossil fuels releases both air pollutants and greenhouse gases, new alternative sources reduce the amount of air pollutants, as new technologies imply a new process or modifications to the actual ones. An economic incentive should promote the change in liu that environmental regulations without penalties are empty words.
Taking the path of elimination, one or all the environmental related taxes will lead Ontario to the point at which no one will be responsible for polluting, who will pay the bill for future site cleaning, remediation or reclamation of contaminated land, water bodies or air? Who will answer for health problems?
It is fair to promote as law the rule that whoever is causing environmental costs must pay the social cost of their actions in full.
It is fair to promote “The carbon tax” to engrave on every day human activities with the goal to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Simple things as the Drive Clean program means a big help, one automobile emit anything between 4 to 5 tons of carbon dioxide, without any control and no incentive to help the environment, the second largest source of greenhouse gases will escalate for sure.
More complicated matters such as Electricity production and Industrial process fields will be out of control. No “carbon tax” and no “cap and trade system” will be a present to polluters, all thanks to a wrong decision of our Provincial Government.