One of the most basic assumptions about climate change that you’re told to accept is that, if you give the government enough power and make enough personal sacrifices, you can help change the weather. You can make natural disasters less likely. You can save beaches and endangered species and even entire countries. All you need to do is pay more in taxes to fund more government bureaucracy, and give up your car and your gas stove and airline travel and maybe your entire livelihood. And then everything will be fine.
There’s no other country on Earth that’s internalized this way of thinking more than our neighbor to the north, Canada. They’ve declared a “national climate emergency.” They have a constantly-increasing national tax on carbon, which raises the cost of living for pretty much every household in the country. They’ve banned plastic straws. They’ve shut down oil…
