Thank you, Madam speaker, A study on the government of Canada website showed that Canada used 722 megatons of carbon dioxide in 2015 which is equivalent to 1.5 quadrillion pounds of Carbon created by a small number of 37 million people. The amount of carbon Egypt used in that year was only 440,000 pounds and they have 62 million more people in their country. We use carbon for our personal and industrial use and the result is the destruction of our environment. A carbon tax is a fee on the amount of fossil fuels emitted in tons. The Liberal Party believes that change starts from somewhere and there is no exception when it comes to improving the environment. Enforcing a federal carbon tax is necessary, reasons being: health benefits, raises revenue, and because its economically efficient. Now let me expand on how a carbon tax will come with health benefits. A 2015 study from the NGO, Berkeley Earth estimated that 1.6 million people in China die each year from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischaemic heart disease, lung cancer, and stroke because of the dangerously polluted …show more content…
Once this happens, solar energy, wind, Biomass , hydro, and geothermal energy will slowly start to be incorporated into everyday power and energy sources. Everything will become more high tech and advanced. There would be more stable prices and more reliability on the power source since it is renewable. We will never run out of these power sources. Carbon is a non-renewable energy source and there will be an end to it, which is why switching to a reusable energy source would save us the carbon we might need in the future. When this happens, Canada will be the first country to be running on renewable energy sources and will be an example to the rest of the
The New Democratic Party promises to improve the environmental situation that we are currently living in. Our current environmental situation is very important to maintain, or even make better, because if we continue on this path of pollution and accumulating green house gases, then the Earth's atmosphere will no longer be sustainable and we risk losing our precious planet. The NDP says that they will attempt to get rid of coal-based electricity. "Coal emits more carbon per unit of energy than oil, and 80 percent more than natural gas." (Green Energy) It is a good thing that the NDP are taking steps to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that are omitted into the air to save the environment. The NDP promises to invest in the production of cars with low emission rates and develop mandatory vehicle emission standards that must be followed in Canada. This will reduce the amount of carbon dioxide omitted from cars, which is a big source of pollution in the world. If the vehicle emission standards are mandatory, people will be forced to follow the standards and will have no choice, therefore resulting in l...
Throughout our lives, we carry and value our own beliefs. As we face different challenges, we may be persuaded into making certain choices. However, no matter how convincing a person may be, in the end we always have the last word. Nobody likes being told what to do but we do like to hear other opinions for a different perspective. The proper way of using rhetoric is through a confident tone that is knowledgeable of their topic. The speaker should have integrity and be selfless in the sense that they are understanding towards their audience.
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to strengthen their commitment to participate in National Women’s Law Center and American Association of University Women Organization.
Our country is currently suffering energy-wise, we have been powering with inefficient sources for years now and the harm that it is doing to the country has started to become apparent. Renewable energy is the only way to stop, or at the very least set back the inevitable downfall of our ecosystem. I think that the next big breakthrough for renewable energy is implementing off-grid communities that use renewable sources as their main sources of power, so that we can potentially escape the energy rut that we got ourselves stuck in.
...lain Canada is headed in the wrong direction, with projections for growing emissions and no stated plan to prevent the increase. While it could be argued that the increase in global temperatures will make places such as the Hudson Bay- Arctic Lowlands more habitable, Canada as a whole must think on what matters more: material gain or a healthy and survivable planet.
A groundbreaking study shows that Canada's economy can still grow by almost 20 per cent over the next decade while the country dramatically reduces its greenhouse gas pollution by about half. The study shows that Canada could take decisive action and still continue to enjoy strong net job growth and other economic benefits. By 2020 Canadians would save more than $5.5 billion each year at the gas pump because of more efficient vehicles, more public transit and shorter commutes.
Every citizen has some taxing obligations and that is given. Taxes are plain required by the state in order to help raise funds for purposes directed to the wellness of the general public. However, there might be some instances where you just can't pay your entire taxing obligation due to a number of occurrences resulting to severe financial constraints. Ergo, you end up having a huge sum of debt to pay to the government.
There are solutions to this problem of climate change that begin with the governments, communities and even just one individual. In order to prevent making the conditions of the earth’s climate worse, the Canadian government has implemented carbon tax in their country. It is a way to reinforce the idea of making environment friendly choices that are healthy for the environment and for future generations if they wish to preserve the earth. When companies or any type of building produce carbon or greenhouse gases, there will be a fee they must pay for polluting the air. This puts a dent in their pockets as a reminder of the actual prices they would have to pay for their entire world caused by greenhouse gas emissions and the expensive part they play in our climate to change.
Canada has a high consumption of energy per capita among other countries. The growth of population is one of the reasons that makes Canada has a high energy consumption. In order to meet the needs of energy, Canada has to rely on coal and tar sand. It will increase the emission of GHGs. Through the example of tar sand production and high consumption of energy and the fact that Canada is one of the top10 countries that emit large amount of GHGs and one of the highest consumption of energy per capita in the world, therefore Canada is responsible to be a larger role in the climate change
As renewable energy sources become more dependable for residential use, both people and individuals in Canada should look at existing uses of these types of producers and begin to establish methods to encourage and incorporate these types of energy producers in the short term. Renewable energy such as wind and solar have massive untapped potential for energy production, and can be utilized as dependable producers of energy for residential usage. The Canadian Wind Energy Association stated that “Ontario alone has the technical potential for 24,000 MW of wind supply and that the national technical potential is also largely untapped.” (Mulvihill, Winfield, & Etcheverry, 2013). However, the country was only producing about 7,800 MW of wind supply at the end of 2013 (Natural Resources Canada, 2014).
14 February 2017 Rick Perry Secretary of Energy, United States Department of America, Dear Mr. Perry: I am writing to you in regards to a recent article entitled Republicans Offer to Tax Carbon Emission, which appeared in Scientific American Magazine on February 8, 2017. This article reported that a group of Republicans in the Climate Leadership Council of United States of America released a carbon-tax-and-divided plan to reduce carbon emissions to fight climate change. The carbon tax proposal indicated that tax carbon emissions would start at $40 a ton and rise $5 each year to cut emissions. The non-profit Carbon Tax Center decided on an increase of $5 tax on carbon emissions because other countries like Great Britain and China who have
Imagine living on the East Coast of the United States in the "Big Apple", and being able to see the Statue of Liberty from you penthouse window. Every morning you wake up and notice that the island it sits on is slowly shrinking in size. The next thing you know the water is at Lady Libery's feet, and eventually the streets you walk on begin to disapper. Imagine this happening all in a week's time, scary right?
Claim: Solar power has the potential to become the United States main supply of energy and replace are needs for more conventional and harmful forms of power generation.
PURPOSE: To persuade my audience that we must take action now to control air pollution
Smoking is not only bad for health it is also as bad for the people