Canadian author Guy Dauncey is challenging Prime Minister Chretien and his cabinet to reduce greenhouse gases by eighty per cent by 2025.
Dauncey is responding to the Prime Minister’s October promise that Canada will ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change by next summer.
His demand calls on the Federal Liberals to expand their green commitment far beyond the treaty’s proposed nine-year, 2.5 per cent reduction.
“The technologies for a world without fossil fuels are ready, so why hesitate?” Dauncey said. “Climate change is going to be enormously expensive if we don’t tackle it, and a world without fossil fuels is going to be a far healthier, cleaner, safer place.”
Dauncey is concerned that as long as they depend on Middle Eastern oil, most of the world’s nations will be held hostage by fragile oil policies and will remain dependent on terrorist-linked Saudi Arabia.
Dauncey says his goals are feasible if Canada adopts “best practice” policies and technologies that are already in use around the world.
For example, Denmark plans to phase out industrial greenhouse gases entirely, and California requires that 10% of all new vehicles will be zero-emission by 2003.
See Dauncey speak at two Toronto-area events:
NORTH TORONTO
Wed. Nov. 21, 6:30pm
Climate Change:
Why is it Happening?
What Can We Do?
Northern District Library,
400 Orchard View Blvd.
(Yonge and Eglinton), Free
TORONTO CITY HALL
Thurs. Nov. 22, 7pm
101 Solutions to Climate Chaos
Toronto City Hall,
Members’ Lounge. Free
