Sunday, January 21, 2007
Visual and Auditory Pollution
The motivation behind our social conservative government's ostentatious transformation from blue to green is purely a vote getting ploy. Now that the health of our environment seems to be at the top of the heap in voter minds - poof! - the Conservatives grab their crayons and color themselves green.
They scrambled to action, throwing money in every direction faster than a Liberal before election day. So far, these announcements, much of which are resurrected Liberal programs or borrowed Liberal ideas, amount to intense visual and auditory pollution.
Let's not be fooled by the Conservatives' new adopted color. To Conservatives, the overwhelming body of evidence proving that global warming actually exists and a disaster is about to unravel is just a bunch of hocus-pocus. Stockwell Day's recent ridicule of Al Gore's documentary "The Inconvenient Truth" is a case in point. Mr. Day has proven he has little knowledge or understanding of environmental issues, yet he seems comfortable and willing to criticize others who do.
The Conservatives have not yet provided details about their programs. If they are serious about the environment we should see, for starters, hard core immediate and short term targets reducing greenhouse gas emissions followed by longer term targets, rather than their current long term (2020 - 2050) targets focusing only on emission intensity.
Time will tell if the Conservatives are serious or just playing with their crayons.
They scrambled to action, throwing money in every direction faster than a Liberal before election day. So far, these announcements, much of which are resurrected Liberal programs or borrowed Liberal ideas, amount to intense visual and auditory pollution.
Let's not be fooled by the Conservatives' new adopted color. To Conservatives, the overwhelming body of evidence proving that global warming actually exists and a disaster is about to unravel is just a bunch of hocus-pocus. Stockwell Day's recent ridicule of Al Gore's documentary "The Inconvenient Truth" is a case in point. Mr. Day has proven he has little knowledge or understanding of environmental issues, yet he seems comfortable and willing to criticize others who do.
The Conservatives have not yet provided details about their programs. If they are serious about the environment we should see, for starters, hard core immediate and short term targets reducing greenhouse gas emissions followed by longer term targets, rather than their current long term (2020 - 2050) targets focusing only on emission intensity.
Time will tell if the Conservatives are serious or just playing with their crayons.
Labels: Al Gore, Conservatives, environment, greenhouse gases, Stockwell Day
