Climate Change; The New Government of Canada Way
Well, whatever way it is, it better be taken seriously. Because this is serious business. To say that much depends upon the will and dedication of all the countries of the world to take the inevitability, the clear and present danger to this orb and those upon seriously is to understate the matter. The former Liberal government of Canada bought into Kyoto, made solemn promises and did exactly nothing. It undertook no initiatives, but it talk a good line.
Although we had pledged to do our part and committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, we increased those emissions by 27% above 1990 levels. Not very encouraging. At the same time, the United States, which refused to sign the Kyoto agreement, lowered its greenhouse gas emissions substantially within that same period. We're doing something very wrong.
Now here is the (he-he) New Government of Canada (all capital letters, please) swearing to bring in their own made-in-Canada solution, focussing on clean air. Let's hear it for clean air, we all need more of it. From what we've been able to see to date about Canada's New Prime Minister (oops, did we really need all caps there?) Stephen Harper, he is a man of his word, someone to be respected on that account alone, even discounting the strong and principled stand he has taken on other matters.
Yet, and yet. During the election campaign the environment wasn't one of the key issues mentioned, not seen as a high priority. Why did we buy into that? Why didn't we demand to know the reason this vital problem wasn't identified as a key pillar in any government of Canada's platform for a better world? Climate change is a reality. It is happening at this very moment, and sending very clear messages in the way of melting ice caps and glaciers, warmer temperatures, floods, torrential rains, hurricanes of ferocious intensity; rising sea levels, threatening coastal habitation.
Hello out there! This is earth calling, something is happening and we don't like it very much. It's beyond troubling, it's frightening.
Vague promises won't cut it any more. We need solutions, we need a stiff dedication to address the very real problems we face right now, let alone into the near future and beyond. We cannot have workable solutions without a well-thought-out plan to remediate and forestall weather catastrophes from becoming an even worse reality than we've already been faced with.
Prime Minister Harper, of the New Government of Canada, do you have the political will?
Although we had pledged to do our part and committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, we increased those emissions by 27% above 1990 levels. Not very encouraging. At the same time, the United States, which refused to sign the Kyoto agreement, lowered its greenhouse gas emissions substantially within that same period. We're doing something very wrong.
Now here is the (he-he) New Government of Canada (all capital letters, please) swearing to bring in their own made-in-Canada solution, focussing on clean air. Let's hear it for clean air, we all need more of it. From what we've been able to see to date about Canada's New Prime Minister (oops, did we really need all caps there?) Stephen Harper, he is a man of his word, someone to be respected on that account alone, even discounting the strong and principled stand he has taken on other matters.
Yet, and yet. During the election campaign the environment wasn't one of the key issues mentioned, not seen as a high priority. Why did we buy into that? Why didn't we demand to know the reason this vital problem wasn't identified as a key pillar in any government of Canada's platform for a better world? Climate change is a reality. It is happening at this very moment, and sending very clear messages in the way of melting ice caps and glaciers, warmer temperatures, floods, torrential rains, hurricanes of ferocious intensity; rising sea levels, threatening coastal habitation.
Hello out there! This is earth calling, something is happening and we don't like it very much. It's beyond troubling, it's frightening.
Vague promises won't cut it any more. We need solutions, we need a stiff dedication to address the very real problems we face right now, let alone into the near future and beyond. We cannot have workable solutions without a well-thought-out plan to remediate and forestall weather catastrophes from becoming an even worse reality than we've already been faced with.
Prime Minister Harper, of the New Government of Canada, do you have the political will?
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