Inquiry findings: Blog #2

Environment   Mar 24, 2017 by Shamare

Blog Post #2:

To obtain my information on climate change affecting Toronto transportation and infrastructure, I used many websites such as the David Suzuki foundation, Statistics Canada, the Environment and Climate Change Canada, and also the Toronto and Region Conservation. I also referred to facts learned from a recent encounter with an expert environmentalist Mr.Gideon. He shared with me the knowledge he had on climate change stating that Toronto is moving away from using coal as an energy resource and instead trying to use more solar and wind energy to generate heat and electricity for homes and infrastructure. This is a huge achievement for Toronto because this will allow Toronto to become a pedestal for other countries to look at and eventually follow. This would also cause major reductions in GHG emissions due to the significant contributor of CO2 -- coal -- being majorly eliminated from Toronto's economy. I've also learned very interesting facts like that Out of five Canadians working today, 4 of them drive a private vehicle to work, according to statsCan. This means that about 80% of Canadians in the labour force are producing to the CO2 in the atmosphere. This really caught my attention because I feel that this is a large amount of carbon being produced seeing as majority of the people get around Toronto in a car or by a public vehicle. After doing my research I came to conclusion that transportation has a huge impact on climate change. If we were to walk more, or invest in hybrid/electric cars, we would be cutting the carbon emissions down significantly. A tiny thing such as walking to school, or taking the public bus instead of your car, can go a long way especially if everyone's mind begins to think this way. One person cutting down on their driving isn't much but as more people begin to do the same, the reductions in global GHG emissions starts to grow and the battle to save our planet begins. 

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