I subscribe to a newsletter from the David Suzuki Foundation. They send me email newsletters with all kinds of cool information. Some of the issues they track are very important to me ... human rights, the environment. Its a great newsletter because some persons with more time and access to information (than me) lets me know about the idiot things that various ruling bodies in the world are planning to do. Now admittedly if you want to know these things you can do your own research, but the David Suzuki Foundation has not led me wrong so far. I do care but I also have to work, eat, sleep, and study kungfu and the research is very complicated these days with all the information and mis-information that you have to sort thru ... so I get their newsletter.
Apparently the canadian government is trying to wiggle out of its committments in regards to the Kyoto accord and is encouraging other countries to do the same. I am not a happy camper and sent my email off to Ms. Ambrose. Now whether you agree with the accord or not ... it certainly does not enchance our image with other countries to be thought of as the type of country that does not keep their word. Secondly if the canadian goverment no longer thinks the accord is effective/ equitable/ affordable ... then they have a responsibility to try for changes to make it effective/equitable/affordable. That would be the mature and responsible way to handle this, five year olds are allowed to stomp off and sulk, not governments that have the responsibility of representing and doing its best for the people that put them in power. Maybe they need a timeout in the corner to think about their behaviour.
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Thank you for posting this. At times it seems like so many people are oblivious to what their government is doing to their country and the planet. If we can't adhere to the Kyoto agreement, what hope can there be for our great grandchildren?
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