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The carbon bubble : what happens to us when it bursts / Jeff Rubin.

by Rubin, Jeff, 1954-

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Random House Canada, 2015.

Energy policy -- Canada.

Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Canada.

Industrial priorities -- Canada.

Petroleum industry and trade -- Canada.

Canada -- Economic policy -- 21st century.

Canada -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

9780345814692 (bound)

xiv, 304 p. : map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

" In The Carbon Bubble, Jeff Rubin compellingly shows how Harper's economic vision for the country is dead wrong. Changes in energy markets in the US--where domestic production is booming while demand for oil is shrinking--are quickly turning Harper's dream into an economic nightmare. The same trade and investment ties to oil that pushed the Canadian dollar to record highs are now pulling it down, and the Toronto Stock Exchange, one of the most carbon-intensive stock indexes in the world--with over 25 percent market capitalization in oil and gas alone--will be increasingly exposed to the rest of the world's efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Rubin argues that there is a lifeline to a better future. The very climate change that will leave much of the country's carbon unburnable could at the same time make some of Canada's other resource assets more valuable: our water and our land. In tomorrow's economy, he argues, Canada won't be an energy superpower, but it has the makings of one of the world's great breadbaskets. And in the global climate that the world's carbon emissions are inexorably creating, food will soon be a lot more valuable than oil."--From publisher.

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