Mr. Harper’s Cold Comfort for Canadians

…Is Canada readying itself for climate change and the equally pressing and closely related energy problem of peak oil?

The very words “peak oil” and “climate change” have had such an unemotional


But slowly or not, Canadians are starting to learn that peak oil and gas mean that we have used up the first half of our supplies, the part that was the easiest and cheapest to extract, and we must now attempt to wring the last few drops out of the earth. But, inexplicably, we are at the same time continuing to develop economic and trade systems that use more gas and oil today than we did yesterday. Something’s gotta give.

The United Sates reached peak oil between 1970 and 1971. That event alone should have told us that the wolf was at the door.

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