Opinion: How Canadians can strike a better balance between the environment and the economy

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Special to The Globe and MailPreston Manning is the founder of the Manning Centre, and the former leader of the Reform Party of Canada.

On the issue of the environment versus the economy, however, we are in danger of becoming dangerously and permanently unbalanced – polarized, with the aid of political extremists on both sides, to the point where little progress is possible on either front.

Balance remedial measures with adaptive measures. Two basic responses to climate change, not one, are required. One is to adopt measures to avoid or mitigate contributing human activities, which is the entire focus of current federal government policy. But the other is to simultaneously pursue adaptive measures with equal vigour, since some of the factors affecting climate change are beyond human control.

Balance domestic with international initiatives. Canada’s environmental-protection practices, including those of the energy sector, are more advanced and stringent than those of many other countries. In some cases, exporting clean technology and clean energy resources to such countries may be a far more effective way of reducing pollution on a global scale than simply tightening already stringent environmental-protection measures at home.

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GlobeDebate The whole thing is simple; We (the country and the world) do not need such insane growth.The true and only beneficiaries are the elite who are hoarding ever increasing share of wealth created by working class. All can live well o n far smaller GDP if fairly shared. Stop the elite

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