Al Gore RIPPED into the Canadian Conservative government’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases which calls for targets FAR above and much pushed back from the Kyoto Protocol.
He joins David Suzuki and a host of other environmentalists who have taken the Canadian government to task for its lack of leadership in this domain. It seems that while the Conservatives correctly determined that Kyoto’s targets and its unfair singling out of developed countries without the engagement of China and India, was out of range, its more the manner in which they have gone about finding another “venue” and the preposterous position they take that Kyoto will hurt economies.
Frankly speaking, it simply smacks of a lack of ingenuity. Take all only a smart fraction of the funding for CANDU (the canadian nuclear platform) or the Alberta Tar Sands supplied by the government for R&D, and plow that into subsidies for the development of a renewable energy policy, and you will find that protecting the environment and job creation can go HAND IN HAND.
Steven Harper doesn’t get it. He remains a holdback of the older conversative philosophy that “the market fixes most things”. In this case, who speaks for the environment we are passing to our children? How do you “calculate” the effect this step backwards will have on them? Where do you value it?
Mr. Harper, its never too late to change one’s mind. Only a fool doesn’t.
Sass
PS. The Conservative Environment Minister, John Baird, fired back at Al Gore’s critique. Click here to read his response.