The real inconvenient truth is that most folks just do not
care about carbon emissions and are simply not interested in the subject.
Do we really care about oil sands, or do
we care about carbon emissions, water pollution, etc?
Not exact matches
Canadians may
care in a vague way
about reducing
carbon emissions, but persuading them to let someone mount a newfangled grey box in their homes — one that is likely to lower a house's temperature during the winter — has been tougher.
In his review of Robert Laughlin's book Powering the Future, Fred Pearce summarises the author's view as «ultimately the planet won't
care much
about our
carbon dioxide
emissions» because the gas will all end up in the oceans (1 October, p 46).
If, however, you are the type of person to donate to environmental protection organizations and
care about doing your part in reducing
carbon emissions, this card is a way for you to make a difference without much daily adjustment.
If the U.S. keeps building new coal - fired power plants without CCS (a technology still in development that is intended to take
carbon dioxide out of
emissions), we can't very well ask or expect other countries (e.g., China) to
care much
about the issue, unless they decide to
care for their own reasons.
Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what
about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to
carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health
care costs and missed work days?