Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe's decision to pause collecting the carbon tax on industrial emissions has caused a Saskatoon 'business guy' to feel shame.

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I am livid. And, as a citizen of this planet, I’m ashamed to be from Saskatchewan.

Most people know me as “a business guy.” But before that and exactly 50 years ago, I won the “Man of the Trees” prize as the top undergraduate from the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of Biology, and the Canadian Geographical Society Award as the top graduating student of geography.

I have never forgotten my roots. And I know the facts:

Fact: The Saskatchewan economy is one of the highest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. This is because we continue to burn very “dirty” lignite coal.

Fact: The Saskatchewan Party government keeps having to top up its crop insurance payouts, along with commensurate and regular “blowouts” of their annual deficit forecasts. Our farmers are struggling with increasingly unstable growing conditions.

Fact: The top 10 hottest years in the recorded history of the planet have just successively happened from 2014 to 2024.

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Fact: The glaciers that feed our lifeblood — the North and South Saskatchewan Rivers — are dramatically shrinking.

Fact: The global climate crisis is real; and that is why Canada is a signatory to the Paris Agreement. Yet too many science deniers still exist and believe that climate change is a hoax. The greenhouse effect was discovered in the 19th century. So........

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