BECAUSE WE ENJOY relatively pure air, clean water, and healthy food systems, Canadians sometimes take the environment for granted. Many scarcely blink if oil from a pipeline spills into a river, a forest is cleared for tar sands operations or agricultural land is fracked for gas. If Arctic ice melts and part of the Antarctic ice sheet collapses, well…they're far away.
Yes David... we're all complete morons who never heard of Global Warming or Climate Change and this is the first time any of us have heard of the terms or knew what their consequences may or may not be, either directly or indirectly..... None of this even has been mentioned at all
in the last 30+ fk'n years!
Canada and other nations just decided to introduce compost bins, recycling, more energy efficient products, etc. etc. just for the living hell of it.
Some see climate change as a distant threat, if they see it as a threat at all. But the scientific evidence is overwhelming: climate change is here, and unless we curb behaviours that contribute to it, it will get worse, putting our food, air, water, and security at risk.
Oh yeah?
It's "HERE NOW?"
I thought it was here 10 years ago..... I thought it was here 15 years ago.... I thought it was here back in the 70's..... oh... but
"IT'S HERE NOW" Now.
Now is the new "NOW" now.... this is the Now and all the other Nows weren't really Nows, they were pre-nows leading up to the Now Now that we Now Know is the Now??
We have to act soon to prevent serious problems??
Weren't we supposed to be acting soon a long time ago? Wasn't Al Gore's Reign of Terror of Global Warming supposed to be the time we're supposed to act soon?
Weren't the late 80's / early 90's supposed to be the time we're supposed to Act Soon before everything started to go to hell by 1997??
No....
NOW WE SHOULD BE ACTING SOON!!
And in another 5-10 years, Global Warming will be happening Then (the new new Now) and we'll still have to act soon.
I think it's a little too late to do sweet fk' all Mr. Suzuki..... and with all the major shifts our cultures have actually made to help reduce our footprint and pollution over the last 30-40 years, and still are, if that's still not good enough, then I guess we're doomed.
People like him won't be happy until we're all living in huts & hunting with spears again.
Only then will we finally reduce our pollution impact enough for them to be satisfied.
.... Even then, I'm sure they'd complain about the amount of fecal matter coming out of our a*ses.
