text: Canada produces approx. 1.6% of the world's GHG emissions. If we theoretically reduce that to 0% (not possible in the foreseeable future), it will not slow or stop global warming.
  Taxes will not slow or stop global warming. That will simply penalize the businesses that now rely on oil in gas to produce products, with no viable alternative.
  Add in another 1 billion or more increase in the world's population in the next 100 years, and GHG emissions will continue to increase globally.
  Oil will be used for decades, possible centuries to come. Coal was the primary source of energy for centuries and it took 100 years to make the switch to oil and gas. That is the timeline we need to embrace for a switch to a carbon intensive economy to some sort of alternative energy source not yet invented - solar, nuclear, wind do not power transport trucks, ships, trains, planes, nor do they provide a substitute for the approx. 7000 products oil is used in.
  It's all pie in the sky for people like you.