tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post2419610241590730084..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Well the S.O.B. Did it. Canada Officially Out of KyotoEmily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-36762923695542698752011-12-13T19:26:52.941-05:002011-12-13T19:26:52.941-05:00I have severe doubts when a government who can'...I have severe doubts when a government who can't account for how hundreds of millions of dollars spent in the Canadian north ended up in one severe housing crisis after another (huge mold problem today in Happy Valley- Goose Bay in houses that are less than ten years old) tells me that they can't implement protocols that parliament committed to because it would be too expensive. So far, every other country is standing by their word, whether they've been able to meet their obligations or not. <br /><br />Harper has no environmental plan because he depends on money from oil sands developers to buy his elections. When I was younger, I was ashamed of Brian Mulroney's sycophantic kowtowing to American conservatives, but Harper continues to show just how much worse it can get. He's a national and international embarrassment.morelikespacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14579614920085665069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-25628205680937604822011-12-13T19:15:09.471-05:002011-12-13T19:15:09.471-05:00"Kyoto was a half-baked idea. Come back with ..."Kyoto was a half-baked idea. Come back with a new accord when it's been thought through, end-to-end."<br /><br />Canada could have provided leadership within the Kyoto framework and developed it into something more effective. However, that won't happen now, not with a Prime Minister and conservative caucus who are climate change deniers. Canadian conservatives these days seem to be little more than sales associates for corporations invested in the tarsands.<br /><br />The Conservatives' main goal seems to be to transform Canada into a medieval petro-state, where the highly destructive alchemy of extracting and converting bitumen to synthetic crude is the highest of religions.Tuxedoramahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08862186976958203208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-37114260492667732682011-12-13T09:02:59.089-05:002011-12-13T09:02:59.089-05:00Had the Harper gov't an alternative plan I mig...Had the Harper gov't an alternative plan I might believe that it was simply about Kyoto. But he has stacked his government with climate change deniers and still thinks that Global Warming is simply a "theory".<br /><br />Kyoto was ratified when Chretien was out of office, and despite attempts by Stephen Harper and Jack Layton, Stephane Dion went to great lengths to have it passed.<br /><br />http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/2010/07/did-jack-layton-sabatoge-kyoto.htmlEmily Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-15628536715783207552011-12-13T07:46:42.158-05:002011-12-13T07:46:42.158-05:00Perhaps Canada is backing out of Kyoto because, al...Perhaps Canada is backing out of Kyoto because, although the architects of Kyoto had good intentions, they didn't have any realistic vision or plan for implementing their intentions in a way that wouldn't destroy the global economy.<br /><br />It's easy for one person to make a gesture... recycle, don't drive, etc. It's very, very different to get an entire nation or a continent to make the same gesture without causing a lot of strife.<br /><br />Would you be prepared to pay the welfare of the unemployed auto and oil workers, for example... the people who lose their jobs if we just arbitrarily slashed oil use? Can you *REALLY* afford to get 20% of the plastic products out of your house?<br /><br />It's not as simple as some cheesy declaration in Japan. Even Chretien knew this, and it seems pretty obvious at this point that he signed us up for Kyoto to score brownie points back home.<br /><br />The government is absolutely right to back out of Kyoto. The Americans were right not to go for it as well.<br /><br />Just because someone on the political right does something, doesn't make it automatically wrong. Just because the left wants it, doesn't mean it's automatically correct.<br /><br />Kyoto was a half-baked idea. Come back with a new accord when it's been thought through, end-to-end.Evolving Squidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01652337040136033626noreply@blogger.com