tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434476.post8503012609318081313..comments2024-02-09T14:40:19.820-05:00Comments on The Dapper Dame: We Were All Thinking ItKatie V.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17144789904304504650noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9434476.post-77860036530977815712011-12-15T11:46:52.064-05:002011-12-15T11:46:52.064-05:00Thanks for this, Katie. The thing that I find mos...Thanks for this, Katie. The thing that I find most disturbing is that in spurning Kyoto at Durban, Peter Kent didn't even feel bothered to contest the urgency of climate change. His arguments came from another angle, that you already mentioned: Canada's economy would suffer in the short term (i.e. the "economic recovery" from the recession). There aren't many serious human-induced climate change deniers in power these days; however, there are those that get away with shortsighted environmental policy-making simply because we're not feeling the pinch quite yet.<br /><br />The shocking thing is that if we look beyond our borders, the immediate evidence of global warming is overwhelming. Countries like Tuvalu in the South Pacific that lie only a few metres above sea level are already seeing their physical existence literally sink into the ocean, yet influential world actors like Canada are the exact reason their voices aren't acknowledged. Canadian "economic interests" also broadsided recent efforts to hold our mining companies more accountable in the Global South, in the form of the defeated Responsible Mining Act (Bill C-300).<br /><br />If Canadians ever had a reputation as "global citizens," this is certainly being eroded as we speak. I find it so disheartening that we're using our relative stability coming out of the recession as a bragging point and an excuse to cloister ourselves, rather than considering it as a position of strength from which to make a contribution to solving some of the world's most pressing problems.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15516244911900959268noreply@blogger.com