This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on key environmental issues including air quality, water management, and land management. It includes photos of air pollution in various cities, rankings of countries by air quality, information on the Paris Climate Accord and US withdrawal, facts on drinkable water, land management, forest management, navigable waterways, and Great Lakes water levels. It also shares perspectives questioning the costs of air pollution and drivers of climate change policies.

1. Environment - Air Quality, Water
Management and Land Management
Paul Young CPA, CGA
August 8, 2019

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Overview
• This presentation looks at key areas of the
environment: Forestry, Water Management,
Land Management and Air Quality.
• This presentation is about the facts. The goal
of the presentation is providing people with
information so they can ask questions of their
elected officials when it comes to
environmental policies.

4. Agenda
• Air Pollution Photos
• Air Quality – Worst Countries
• Air Quality – Best Countries
• Paris Accord Climate
• Paris Accord Climate – USA withdrawal
• Drinkable Water
• Land Management
• Forest Management
• Navigational Waters
• Great Lakes Water Levels

5. Air pollution cost Canadians $36B in 2015,
causes 7,700 premature deaths a year
• http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/air-pollution-cost-canadians-36b-2015-causes-7700-premature-deaths-year-194416/
OTTAWA—Air pollution
cost Canadian families
an estimated $36 billion
in 2015 due to
premature death and
illness, a new research
report says.
Canadian Manufacturing – June 1, 2017
• How many of these people smoke
cigarettes?
• Canada has some of the best air
quality in the world
• How did they determine the cost?

6. Air Pollution Photos
India
China
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Toronto

7. Air Quality Index – Worst Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-
climate-pledges

8. Air Quality Index – Best Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-
climate-pledges
• Both Canada and USA have
some of the best air quality
in the world

9. Paris Climate Accord
• https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/06/what-are-the-actual-promises-and-commitments-
related-to-the-paris-agreement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29

10. USA leaves Paris Climate Accord
• http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-leaves-paris-accord-but-not-just-about-climate-change-2017-6 or https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html?_r=0
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw
from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming and
embracing isolationist voices in his White House who argued that the agreement
was a pernicious threat to the economy and American sovereignty.
In a speech from the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said the landmark 2015 pact
imposed wildly unfair environmental standards on American businesses and
workers. He vowed to stand with the people of the United States against what he
called a “draconian” international deal.

11. Canada / PM Trudeau
Comments:
• Cleantech is $50B business, but losing money
• Cleantech needs raw materials, refinement,
fabrication, delivery and installation
• Canada is already carbon neutral
• Trudeau’s key member Gerald Butts was
responsible for the Green Act in Ontario.
Ontario has some highest electrical rates in
North American
• NWO is driving movement to eliminate CO2
man-made
• CO2 is not a pollutant, but foundation for life -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Smhn1gL6
Xg&t=713s

12. Air Quality
• Poor air quality countries
• Cheap dirty coal
• De-Forestration
• Carbon based economy (oil)
• Poor environment regulations for air, water and land management
• Many countries have come along way in terms of air quality through new regulations
• Tougher emissions control systems for cars
• Better scrubbing technology for industry
• Clean Coal
• Better management of forest (Natural Absorption for CO2 – Greenhouse gases

13. India Water Pollution

14. India Air Pollution

16. UN / India and China
• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/air-pollution-levels-up-by-8-un-report/article8642415.ece

17. Land/Water Management
Source - https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2017/02/21/it%E2%80%99s-hard-manage-something-you-cannot-see-%E2%80%93-can-
we-feed-billions-ground

18. Fresh Water
https://top5ofanything.com/list/575a978e/Countries-with-the-Most-Fresh-Water

19. China / Water
Source - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/china-spending-100-billion-to-start-addressing-severe-water-pollution.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29
China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with a projected total
investment of 667.4 billion yuan (US$100.2 billion).
The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and prevent water pollution, and
covered 325 contaminated groundwater sites across the country. A total of 343 contaminated sites
had been identified, meaning that 95 per cent had drawn up plans to bring water quality up to
required standards.
Large amounts of China’s water have been rendered unusable as a result of poorly regulated
industrial expansion, overmining and the uncontrolled use of pesticides and fertilisers.

20. Water Management/Nova Scotia
Source - https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/nova-scotia-risk-becoming-island-action-isnt-taken-municipal-leaders-warn-204477/
Nova Scotia is at risk of becoming an island within decades if action is not taken to fix the
275-year-old dikes that prevent flooding of the isthmus connecting the province to the rest
of Canada, officials warn.
Mayor David Kogon of Amherst, N.S., said sea levels are projected to rise in the Bay of
Fundy over 15 to 20 years to the point where the Isthmus of Chignecto will flood, even
without a storm surge

21. Houston / Urban Sprawl
Source - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/31/real-villains-harvey-flood-urban-sprawl
Houston’s catastrophic flood will be framed by leaders in Texas as an unforeseeable act
of God. It isn’t. Houston’s unfettered sprawl into the marshland of southeast Texas was a
conscious choice by policymakers. So was building a global city on a slowly submerging
swamp. Both were decisions that led to disaster.
Houston has quietly become our fourth largest and fastest-growing city, due in large part
to cheap housing. But the latter has come at an exorbitant cost to its safety. The swamps
and wetlands that once characterized Houston’s hinterland have been replaced with strip
malls and suburban tract homes.

22. Arable Land
Source - http://beef2live.com/story-countries-arable-land-world-0-108929

23. Forest Management
• https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/forest-management-climate-change-
practices-around-the-world
• There needs to be integrated strategy when managing all aspects of the
environment. The climate alarmist will never discuss all aspects, why? Climate
alarmist want to push their agenda at all cost!
• Provincial/States/Federal governments have slashed their forest management
budgets - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/forest-management-
could-be-causing-more-harm-than-good-says-ubc-prof-1.4777025

24. Flooding / Policy
• Aging infrastructure - https://www.on-
sitemag.com/infrastructure/torontos-aging-water-infrastructure-high-
density-lead-to-issues-with-flooding/1003960019/
• https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2016/07/08/41949
8.htm - It is time for home owners that wish to live by water pay higher
property taxes as part building containment walls and/or updating dykes and
levies or other diversion projects.

25. Canada
Environmental
Ranking

26. Navigational
Waterways
Source -
http://business.financialpost.com/
opinion/no-the-harper-
government-didnt-gut-laws-
protecting-our-
waterways/wcm/29a66644-55df-
40bb-9ce4-03760377ec52

27. Great Lakes Water Levels
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/blame-climate-change-for-record-water-
levels-in-the-great-lakes-prof-
1.4539489?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=
5d4c196ca281bd0001aff273&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitte
r
1. Water levels are constantly changing. There is no
way to say the rise is climate change
2. We need to stop sewage flow into the great lakes.
How come that is missing from Blair’s post?

28. 2019 Election – Climate Change
Who would I trust on the environment?
• https://globalnews.ca/news/5702929/road-collapse-ns-climate-
change/?utm_source=%40globalhalifax&utm_medium=Twitter
@justintrudeau who has no policies other than carbon tax
@andrewscheer who has stronger approach that looks at all angles
• https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-climate-change-and-the-
environment-canada-june-2019

29. Other issues
• Too many countries are using carbon tax/pricing to cut emission without any real success
• Government are masking green policies as they are helping the environment which in fact all
they have done is hike taxes as well as increase the cost of power generation
• Environment has many pieces to it. The focus of many governments has been to narrow
• Poor land and water management policies
• Too many governments are not taking a balance approach to both environment and the
economy.