The Hamilton Spectator

Finding the Earth’s balance

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RE: ENVIRONMEN­T

This all seems difficult to understand as it combines chemistry, economics and a country’s politics.

Simply, matter can neither be created nor destroyed, everyone needs to eat, and the most populated countries are making the mess.

China, India and the USA use coal for energy because it is low cost, readily available and is necessary to drive their economy to feed the masses. Does this mean if the rest of the industrial­ized countries like Canada impose to reduce emissions, that will somehow balance the top three CO2 producers?

This is troubling to the average Canadian taxpayer. We need to find a balance yet we breathe the same air of the global CO2 contributo­rs.

Science needs to find Earth’s harmony and the economy must keep moving as people need to eat. The political part is what confuses/frightens people the most.

Kate Hamilton, Hamilton

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