Since Parliament Is Back In Session… I Guess I Should Be Too
Wow. I haven’t posted since the Olympics? That’s some serious slacking. Long story short… in the last while I’ve become a homeowner, been working a fair bit of overtime (Damn salaried employment! No OT pay!) and I’m getting married on July 8th. So things have been a fair bit busy here lately and I guess now’s as good a time as any to get back into the swing of things.
One thing of interest that I stumbled upon the other day was the news that Harper’s government has ceased funding the One Tonne Challenge.
Great environmental start for the new government.
I have and will be saving approximately 15 tonnes/year of CO2 per year with my smart car and that was information that I gathered from a calculator on the One Tonne Challenge homepage.
Other people I know have used that site to calculate their reductions as well as to learn about other ways to reduce their emissions.
Not only are they nixing the One Tonne Challenge program… they’re evaluating about 100 other Liberal climate-change programs for further cuts.
Every country that seems to have the money and ability to do anything about what is quite clearly a problem with our planet have all decided it’s better to just fuck off and let it keep spiraling out of control in favour of pandering to the corporations that are fueling the problem. Pun intended.
We’ve had the governments and corporate lobbyists denying global warming existed… then they couldn’t deny it any longer and they started to say that, while it was a reality, it wasn’t our fault. Now that there’s evidence that it is very possible that it’s our fault we’ve got governments leaning on those who are demonstrating as much to shut the fuck up and look the other way.
Is that really the plan? To just keep the status quo and let us dig our own fucking graves when we’ve given up opportunity after opportunity to fix (or being fixing) this? This is absolutely sickening to me.