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Its been awhile

So here we are, 100 days into a Harper government and what do you know - the sky hasn't fallen, we haven't become a US state, and a dose of realism has entered into the discussion.

As much as the left (represented by Mr. blowhard, er, Jack Layton) likes to whine, the Conservative position on Kyoto seems to me to be quite realistic. The targets the Liberals "negotiated" were never realisitc, and the complete lack of any planning or strategy to meet them speaks to the fact that they were aware of this, and were signing on for purely political purposes - so that they could parade around as the "environmentally conscious" party in front of the Canadian people, and paint themselves as the party that maintained Canada's reputation as a "good citizen of the world". But that's all it was - posturing. There was never any substance behind it, and its high time someone started injecting some sanity into the conversation. The fact that our emissions are up 35% would seem to me to be a concrete sign that we are unable to meet our Kyoto committments - short of shutting down the Canadian economy.

Injecting some sanity into the conversation starts with blowing away the useless hot air in the discussion. Anyone who believes that Kyoto will somehow 'stop' or prevent Climate Change is living in a fantasy world. The whole debate thus far pre-supposes that climate change is being driven by human activity and that human activity can somehow put a halt to it. Simply put, climate change is incredibly complex - and has been going on since, well, since the earth was formed some 4 billion years ago. The idea that there has been some "normal" climate on the earth is pure fantasy.

So - what is wrong with a made in Canada approach - especially one that tackles more than just Greenhouse gasses - but also other types of pollution - especially the ones that cause all the smog that people fret so much about during the long hot summer...


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