TALKING ABOUT SCIENCE DOES NOT MAKE YOU PRO-ALBERTA OR ANTI-ALBERTA
Some commentators to the piece below are saying that the scientists are "anti-Alberta" while others seem to be bashing Alberta/Albertans for having become wealthier than others through exploitation of fossil fuels. Neither position is helpful. The scientists are not saying that Alberta's fossil fuel industry as such has put the province's forests at greater risk. They are talking about global climate change. But there is no doubt that fossil fuel industries, wherever they are, contribute excessively to greenhouse gas emissions as does cattle raising. In both cases, the current Alberta economy is going to have to give way to such realities though its current government in particular denies any responsibility to act. So, both Canadian and other governments worldwide need to respond in terms of replacing fossil fuels with other energy sources and making it less easy for greenhouse gas emitting industries to survive. As an Albertan, I don't regard that fact as "anti-Alberta" or "anti-Canada" but simply pro-planet
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