Funny how it's child-rearing except when it scares you.
You sound like the folk when I was a kid having a damn stroke over any kind of sex ed, and writing outraged letters to the FCC when Kirk and Uhura kissed on Star Trek.
Yep, so am I. And wind, and tidal, and hydro, and tying li'l teeny generators to the tails of compulsively wagging little dogs.
Whatever works. I'm not religious.
No country that considers war and peace, crime and punishment, human rights, physical and economic well-being, and freedom of thought and expression to be less important than who pees where deserves to be a democracy.
It's a transition to a new energy source. Not exactly the first time. Just think when we all started running our lives and economies on this newfangled "petroleum," switching from good ol' whale-oil and firewood.
Heh-heh. Set up a powerless talking shop, and then piss and moan about shutting it down because it's a powerless talking shop.
How quickly do you expect the UN to grow into a superstate that has the power to overrule the actions of legitimately-elected national governments?
Canada seems to be following the U.S. down the debt hole. The problem I see for Canada in that is that the U.S. has a pretty sure bet that our debt won't be called, because it would probably trash the global economy. Canada's debt could be called without such dire consequences for anybody but...