Posted on 03/12/2019 7:13:35 AM PDT by keat
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — It’s a green big deal for a tiny sliver of a country. Costa Rica, population 5 million, wants to wean itself from fossil fuels by 2050, and the chief evangelist of the idea is a 38-year-old urban planner named Claudia Dobles who also happens to be the first lady.
Every country will have to aspire to something similar, scientists say, if the world is to avert the most dire consequences of global warming. And while Costa Rica’s carbon footprint is tiny compared to other countries, Ms. Dobles has a higher goal in mind: Getting rid of fossil fuels would show the world that a small country can be a leader on an awesome problem ...
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Now, if its decarbonization strategy succeeds, it could provide a road map to others ... But if it doesn’t work, in a country so small and politically stable, it would have equally profound consequences.
The National Decarbonization Plan, as it’s called, envisions electric passenger and freight trains in service by 2022 ...
Revamping transportation is expensive and so it will require tackling things that have little direct connection to climate change ...
A rough, initial estimate puts the price tag at $6.5 billion. ...
Ms. Dobles has suggested higher taxes on gas-guzzling vehicles ...
Ms. Dobles is certain that habits will change ... when she visited Paris, on a college scholarship. It was mind-blowing. She didn’t miss not having a car. ...
Of course, if everyone in the world were to decarbonize, that would be a big problem for Costa Rica. Most of the 3 million tourists who came last year flew here, leaving a gigantic carbon footprint in the sky.
(Excerpt) Read more at nyti.ms ...
What a nice lesson it would be for us.
Check out her picture at the link.
If the Times wants to be taken seriously on this topic, they should start using bicycles to power their print runs.
“ I lived without a car in Paris, let’s see all of Costa Rica live without cars”
When does electric train service start delivering tourists?
I’ve always thought Costa Rica was a huge part of the problem with Global Warming. I don’t know how many times I’ve said, “Man! If only Costa Rica would get its act together we could nip this thing in the bud and stop the seas from rising!”
She, with her husband, are looking to become the next Chavez/Maduro couple of Central and South America.
She’ll be booted out of the country in a few years, or suffer bigger consequences.
[[The National Decarbonization Plan, as it’s called, envisions electric passenger and freight trains in service by 2022 ... ]]
Prepare yourself for another failed state.
This is great because we all know the electric comes from the wall outlet.
A liberal lady I knew raved about deciding to buy an electric car to “get off fossil fuels”. I asked her where she thought the electric came from to charge it. She told me it was from the batteries. Yes, people are really that stupid.
Like I've said for years, they want complete control over our lives, not just Global Warming nonsense.
:: envisions electric passenger and freight trains in service by 2022 ::
How many NUCLEAR electrical generating plants does CR have?
It’s unattainable for a country of 5 million that does not manufacture anything and does not even have an army.
No way no how it can be done in any large developed country.
Make Costa Rica uncomfortable for American tourists and the government will collapse in one year.
Costa Rica, BTW, is quite a bit smaller than West Virginia.
I have driven all accross Costa Rica from Nicaragua to Panama. You could not see anything in the state without a vehicle.
My favorite Costa Rica story over the years is the now extinct Golden Toad of Monte Verde. Environmentalists got all freaked out that the Golden Toad seemed to be disappearing, so an all out effort went into tracking the golden toads to try to figure out why they were disappearing. Turns out that the toad went extinct because of a fungus that was spread across the jungle that was attached to the boots of environmentalists stomping through the virgin jungle.
Trying to turn Costa Rica into Costa Pobre. OK, every country can eat their own Cheez Doodles. Just don’t try shoving them down our throats, too.
LOL — that’s called “Loving Them to Death”.
Just keep growing bananas Costa Rica.That’s your one contribution to the world.
> wants to wean itself from fossil fuels by 2050 <
What a hoot! Give us the accolades - and the support - now. Then check back with us in, say, 25 years to see how we’re doing.
envisions electric passenger and freight trains in service by 2022 ::
Costa Rica is close to the Stone-age now , I think they’ll reach their goal before 2050
Yeah, let’s hold Costa Rica up as a model ... /s
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=costa+rica+unemployment
In the long-term, the Costa Rica Unemployment Rate is projected to trend around 17.40 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.
What is the poverty rate in Costa Rica?
Extreme poverty reached its highest recorded rate in the last six years, according to the annual report on poverty in Costa Rica. The 2015 Household Survey reported an overall poverty rate of 21.7 percent, slightly lower than the 22.4 percent reported in 2014.Oct 23, 2015
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=costa+rica+unemployment
> I’ve always thought Costa Rica was a huge part of the problem with Global Warming. <
LOL! Maybe I’ll write a scientific paper claiming that Costa Rica’s plastic straws are the main cause of pollution in the world’s oceans. That’ll give those folks something additional to work on.
Going all-electric only means you have to generate large amounts of electricity from what? Fossil fuels? All of the infrastructure for electric charging stations for cars that only travel 30-40 miles on one charge? It's going to cost a lot of money with little tangible return.
Spending a dollar to save a nickel. Solving a problem that doesn't exist.
The Left has been claiming that global cooling, global warming, climate change is the biggest challenge to our future.
But they have been threatening the rest of us for decades that the end in upon us and the red line has been drawn, and now the brilliant AO-C says we only have twelves years left.
Nothing is different today than it was 3 or 4 decades ago when this hoax-fueled hysteria started. If we had believed Al Gore's dire predictions back when he started pitching global warming, New Yorkers would swimming to work under 20 feet of water by now.
And so the lies continue without being challenged. Because it's "settled" science. Because the debate is already over, even though I never remember the debate happening in the first place.
Things change. The planet adapts. Humans adapt. And life moves on.
See my tagline...
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