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I don’t write a lot about climate change. I believe it is happening. I believe man plays a role. I also fear it is too late to stop temperatures from rising, creating havoc all over the planet for generations to come.

I’m happy the Coalition Avenir Québec government has decided to add “fix the environment” to its to-do list, with a modest but doable plan — doable is key — to electrify transportation and use 40 per cent less petroleum by 2030 announced by Premier François Legault at the party’s general council meeting in downtown Montreal this past weekend.

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The premier promised a CAQ-style pragmatic approach to fighting climate change, poking fun at former Liberal premier Philippe Couillard who came back from the COP 21 meeting in Paris in 2015 a changed “green man.”

Few countries can lower the Earth’s thermostat alone. Some have imprints so large it also discourages smaller countries from acting at all while the world’s biggest emitters of CO2 — namely the U.S., China, Russia and India — can’t even act together to save our only home in the universe.