You are kidding I hope , that is like saying a tribe in the rain forest only uses renewable energy
I almost moved to Costa Rica , perfect climate , same every day , lows about 65* highs 80* , dont have to heat or air condition homes , offices or buildings , small country , you dont need a BMW and a 200mph Autobahn to get around , dont need snow clearing equipment yada yada
And not one farging Polar Bear in sight , nor Arctic Terns.
An what do your silly statements suppose to mean? You call "a tribe" a country whose population is about Newfoundland's, Prince Edward Island's, Nova Scotia's, New Brunswick's, Saskatchewan's, Manitoba's and half Alberta's, altogether.
Your temperatures are off for half the country. Architectural design -open galleries, high ceilings and thick brick walls that work as Trombe minimize air conditioning needs but still equipment sales are peaking as quality of life improves and in the last decade two dedicated factories have being built.
The needs you claim for BMWs anywhere is as a stupid statement as they come. Your linking of snow clearing equipment with the electricity matrix is a figment of your imagination.
The only valid comparison is that in Costa Rica you can be stupid and ill-intentioned and yet have a house that is energy efficient, while in Canada you are allowed to have thin walls and big single glazed windows -maybe to take a look to thin polar bears that wandered away inland
- and thus consume an obscene volume of fuel. To avoid highways you only have to suppress the need of them, like a Canadian teacher from Ontario I've met in another forum who needed to travel 110 km to her classroom every day because that's the way jobs are assigned there.
I posted that piece of news to show that even a developing country can set meaningful goals to curb greenhouse gas emissions -By 2023, all power stations using fossil fuels will be definitively dismantled-. Today 20% of Costa Rica's electricity comes from wind and geothermal while there are many projects developing solar. Besides, water heating using solar is spreading as well. And Costa Rica has a per capita consumption of electricity that is above most countries in Latin America.
It's a matter of intelligence and common sense. You may see Costa Rica sets an example just by comparing life expectancies: Canada 82.5 years; Costa Rica 79.8 years; United States 78.6; Venezuela 75. And that is achieved with a GDP that is 2.6% of the Canadian GDP, and without foreign aid.
So, Arnold Martin, who tried to BS us with photos of polar bears in Svalbard and are a "place dropper" (7-continent Arnold "almost moved to Costa Rica"), stop trying to interfere with this thread. So far you have tried to throw cooked spaghetti into the works one by one to no avail. That only shows you don't know a cooked spaghetti from a spanner (monkey wrench), and you know shinola about climate, climate change, environmental science and whatever is needed to not become the laughing stock here (though I have to admit Haig is doing better in that department)
