You get to your hometown and drive down the same streets you still know like the back of your hand. You take a deep breath and make that trip home. You leave the life you’ve been creating for yourself, the life that seems so small compared to the one your parents made for you.
There will come a time in adulthood when you make that cherished journey back to the place where you grew up.Ī time when you book a plane ticket and embark on that familiar voyage back to the place where you lost your first tooth, where you had your first kiss and where you learned your first lessons about life. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know? government to make a decision and it's critical that they do it soon," said Sharp.It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. But in places like Toronto, Sharp said, a lack of government rules that would stimulate the virtuous circle of better technology and a faster transition mean increases in energy efficiency have slowed to a crawl. With improving technology and falling costs, electric cars seem destined to send gas motors to the scrapheap.īut as architect Sharp noted, while people on average turn over their cars every 15 years, all the buildings you can see out your window now in all probability will still be there in 2050, a time when Canada has committed to net zero.Īs Vancouver has demonstrated, the private sector has the skills and technology to meet that target.
Of heat sources, natural gas is the biggest single GHG producer partly because it is so widely used. To reach net zero by 2050, experts say we have to stop heating with gas.Īnalysis Coverage of the energy sector falls short if it ignores climate change: Don PittisĪt COP26, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed Canada's biggest GHG generator, the oil-and-gas sector itself, to reducing emissions. It depends how you calculate it, but most figures show space heating comes in after oil and gas production and road transport as being the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Some, including former federal Conservative finance minister Joe Oliver, now chair of Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator, oppose the move to stop using natural gas, saying it will be prohibitively expensive and self-defeating.īut there is a problem. It is also efficient, reliable and in millions of Canadian homes. And at the burning stage at least, research shows it's cleaner and far less greenhouse gas intensive than other fossil fuel alternatives. The problem with fossil methane - the main component of natural gas - they say, is not that it's expensive, but that it is still so cheap. You may have seen recent media warnings that the price of natural gas is soaring.Īs COP26 heads into its final week, those trying to help Canadians meet our climate commitments and prevent the world from overheating have a different view. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.
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