Terry Etam's letter to Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton | BOE Report
I won’t waste much of your time, this doesn’t take long. Please consider these two data points, one from your letter:
‘We are proud of the many people and businesses who are proud to call Whistler home, and who welcome over three million visitors each year.’
As a second data point I bring to your attention this from an article in The Economist:
“Readers of The Economist are a well-travelled lot. Many of them will be aware, perhaps slightly guiltily, that one of the biggest personal contributions to climate change is all that jet-setting. On average, each person on Earth going about their normal business produces the equivalent of five tonnes of CO2 a year. But a single transatlantic round trip produces the equivalent of about one tonne per passenger even in economy class.”
Do you see a problem here, particularly with the millions you mention?
Climate change is caused by CONSUMPTION of fossil fuels. All those visitors CHOOSE to go to Whistler, and you encourage it.
What is even more interesting is that the Economist article is about a new CO2 sequestration technology being developed by Bill Gates (yes that Bill Gates) and…Murray Edwards, founder of Canadian Natural Resources. It is called Carbon Engineering Ltd. and is based in Squamish. This company, being covered by a British economic publication, is on the cutting edge of possibly solving the world’s excess CO2 problem in a way that all the attacks on fossil fuel producers never, ever will. Because, as you and I know but few want to talk about, emissions come from CONSUMPTION. Whistler spends heavily to attract tourists from around the world, perhaps you would like to step up and declare your responsibility for, and contribution to, increased CO2 emissions? ...
https://boereport.com/2018/12/12/ter...jack-crompton/
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