Fighting global warming and working to meet Canada’s Kyoto commitments will not cause an economic collapse, despite the Harper government’s recent assertions, a major economist told a lunchtime business crowd on Monday.
Former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern was making his first visit to Canada since last fall, when he published a 700-page report that made international headlines with its warnings that the world could face an economic catastrophe similar to the Great Depression by ignoring the threat of climate change.
"So you have your choice now," Stern said in a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto: "You can be absurd and reject the science; you can be reckless and say we can adapt to whatever happens; or you can be unethical and disregard the future, simply because it’s in the future. That’s entirely up to you."
Decisions, decisions.
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"The tongue of the wise dispenses knowledge, but the mouthes of fools pour out folly." [Proverbs 15:2]
"So you have your choice now," Stern said in a speech to the Economic Club of Toronto: "You can be absurd and warn that the world could face an economic catastrophe similar to the Great Depression by ignoring the threat of climate change; you can be [sensible] and say we can adapt to whatever happens, just as we have throughout all of human history, written and unwritten; or you can be unethical and attempt to whip up a frenzy of irrational fear about global warming to promote your career, as Al Gore and I have done. Thank you."
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