Comments on: Thanksgiving An Election And Health Care

By: No Post Day | First Vote « …salted lithium.

No Post Day | First Vote « …salted lithium. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:52:06 +0000

[...] is voting day in the United States, Canadians had ours a couple of weeks [...]

By: Gabriel...

Gabriel... — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:26:08 +0000

Hey little brother, I talked to mom and she said to stop teasing the Greenies.

By: dumbwaiter

dumbwaiter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:08:31 +0000

…I was talking to a Greenie today, about the above post, and she brought up Sweden. She said that Sweden is also a cold place to live, and was way ahead of their Ghg targets in relation to Kyoto. Typical Greenies, always comparing us to Sweden.
I politely pointed out that the only thing Sweden is ahead of us in, is in producing Greenhouse gases.

In 1990 Sweden earned (in 1990 dollars)$156.25 million CDN in GDP for every 1 megatonne Ghg produced, as stated above, Canada earned $1.169 billion per megatonne. That means that although Sweden had lower emissions as a real number, Canada was more than 700% more efficient than Sweden in production.

Bringing us forward to the present, Sweden’s economy has grown, and is now $438.5 million per 1 megatonne of Ghg produced, again, in 1990 Canadian dollars. As stated above, Canada is at $4.17 billion to 1 megatonne Ghg emmisions produced. Canada has increased it’s proficency over Sweden from over 700% to now over 950%.

Population wise, Sweden went from 8.5 million people in 1990, to 9 million people today, an increase of less tha 1%, while Canada increased from 25.75 million people to 33.5 million people, an increase of over 22%.

So that means that Sweden is celebrated for producing 72 megatonnes of Ghg per 1 million population, and Canada is condemned for producing 21.19 megatonnes of Ghg per 1 million population.

By: dumbwaiter

dumbwaiter — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:29:17 +0000

In regards to the election, please correct me if I am wrong in this assessment:

Kyoto targets set out are to be 6% under 1990 levels (592 megatonnes), we peaked in 2003 at 743 megatonnes, and as of 2006 we were at 721 megatonnes, with recent estimates estimating an additional drop of 1.5% of that number leading us into 2009, at 710 megatonnes of Greenhouse gases created annually.

Canada 1990 produced 592 megatonnes of Greenhouse gases annually.
Canadian GDP in 1990 dollar value was $692.5 billion CDN.
Canadian population was 25.75 million people.
…so that would equal out to 22.99 megatonnes of Ghg per 1 million population
…or, $1.169 billion dollars GDP per 1 megatonne of Ghg produced

Canada 2008 produced 710 megatonnes of Ghg annually
Canadian GDP of 1.7 trillion 1990 dollars CDN
Canadian population is 33.5 million people
…so that would equal out to 21.19 megatonnes per 1 million people, a decrease of, 7.3% to 1990 levels.
…or, $ 4.17 billion 1990 dollars GDP per 1 megatonne of Ghg produced a decrease of almost 250%

Is this not something that the environmentalists should recognize as an achievement?

By: justinmohareb

justinmohareb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:39:06 +0000

I don’t recall any of the parties platforms including much on health care. Mostly on the environment, families, and how much we couldn’t trust Dion/Harper.

By: exactscience

exactscience — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:41:52 +0000

The UK have a similarly odd approach to healthcare in that individual boards decide on what drugs to fund based on the areas most prevalent ails. This can lead to people living around the corner from one another being allowed or denied access to different treatment. But all drug treatment is moving to free in Scotland so that’s cool.

One of the better national directives about Family Doctors/ GPs is that surgeries need to provide you with an appointment within two days but it doesn’t have to be with your named doctor.

I think globally healthcare needs reformed.