Comments on: Stephane’s big day http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/ Current political events, business, real estate, financial and economic news, trends and, above all, the Future. Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kevin M http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/comment-page-1/#comment-49804 Kevin M Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:18:03 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/#comment-49804 Clearly Elizabeth has not visted the frasier valley in the summer =P *cough* Also new evidence is showing that its greenie lets-interfere-with-forest-fires policy is causing the pine beetle problems. Also, alberta has now and has always had pine beetles, they just dont have a problem with em. They're not like some pest thats going to jump the border like illegal immigrants, they're here already. If we'd stop putting out forest fires, and stopped building cities at the top of treed hills, then we wouldnt have so many problems. I'm not saying global warming isnt a problem, it is, but don't use a lot of localized issues that can't be conclusively linked as a scare-tactic to support the cause. co2 is out of control. period. its time to go carbon neutral, but we're not doing this? why? well, because people, like yourself dont support it. They don't buy biodiesel cars, they don't buy flexfuel cars, they wont pressure the govt to subsidize the hydrogen economy to even a fraction of how the oil and gas sector is. (petro-canada, how about hydrogen-canada.. cmon) If we were worried about it, we'd jack the rate for consumer hydro-electricity where that electricity is produced by carbon-emitting processes. We'd subsidize the alternative fuel industry and we'd create legislation saying any auto manufacterer must have a hydrogen design for sale under $x by 2015. But we don't do this; and even the greenies don't ask for it. They just want to hug a tree and drive their vw vans thousands of miles to get in the way of logging trucks. Cmon now. If you want change, start in your own backyard. Are you carbon neutral? Clearly Elizabeth has not visted the frasier valley in the summer =P

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Also new evidence is showing that its greenie lets-interfere-with-forest-fires policy is causing the pine beetle problems. Also, alberta has now and has always had pine beetles, they just dont have a problem with em. They’re not like some pest thats going to jump the border like illegal immigrants, they’re here already. If we’d stop putting out forest fires, and stopped building cities at the top of treed hills, then we wouldnt have so many problems.

I’m not saying global warming isnt a problem, it is, but don’t use a lot of localized issues that can’t be conclusively linked as a scare-tactic to support the cause.

co2 is out of control. period. its time to go carbon neutral, but we’re not doing this? why? well, because people, like yourself dont support it. They don’t buy biodiesel cars, they don’t buy flexfuel cars, they wont pressure the govt to subsidize the hydrogen economy to even a fraction of how the oil and gas sector is. (petro-canada, how about hydrogen-canada.. cmon)

If we were worried about it, we’d jack the rate for consumer hydro-electricity where that electricity is produced by carbon-emitting processes. We’d subsidize the alternative fuel industry and we’d create legislation saying any auto manufacterer must have a hydrogen design for sale under $x by 2015.

But we don’t do this; and even the greenies don’t ask for it. They just want to hug a tree and drive their vw vans thousands of miles to get in the way of logging trucks.

Cmon now. If you want change, start in your own backyard. Are you carbon neutral?

]]> By: Elizabeth http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/comment-page-1/#comment-49685 Elizabeth Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:11:00 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/#comment-49685 Vancouver was voted the most sustainable city in Canada and we are working on it. Maybe the beautiful scenery makes us appreciate the environment more. We have David Suzuki here. UBC started the first Sustainability Office in Canada and the professors have had huge impact on youth. See Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth" in the end he tells young people to tell their parents to see the film, assuming the older generation aren't very hip. It is an inconvenient truth. Gore's sister died of lung cancer and his parents big family farm grew tobacco - they connected the dots and it was an "inconvenient truth" for them to give up the family farm. Let's do it for our kids. We only have a couple of decades left. Look at the weather in Vancouver, boiled water advisory, pine beetles have eaten up the forests, moving towards Alberta, salmon stalks down because of increase in water temperature, plus low water table. The Athabasca river in Alberta is being drained by the oil & gas industry, effecting fish stocks there as well as lakes & streams of First Nations - their livelihood. What will it take for the world to wake up! Vancouver was voted the most sustainable city in Canada and we are working on it. Maybe the beautiful scenery makes us appreciate the environment more. We have David Suzuki here. UBC started the first Sustainability Office in Canada and the professors have had huge impact on youth. See Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” in the end he tells young people to tell their parents to see the film, assuming the older generation aren’t very hip. It is an inconvenient truth. Gore’s sister died of lung cancer and his parents big family farm grew tobacco – they connected the dots and it was an “inconvenient truth” for them to give up the family farm. Let’s do it for our kids. We only have a couple of decades left. Look at the weather in Vancouver, boiled water advisory, pine beetles have eaten up the forests, moving towards Alberta, salmon stalks down because of increase in water temperature, plus low water table. The Athabasca river in Alberta is being drained by the oil & gas industry, effecting fish stocks there as well as lakes & streams of First Nations – their livelihood. What will it take for the world to wake up!

]]> By: Sheryl http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/comment-page-1/#comment-49578 Sheryl Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:15:58 +0000 http://www.garth.ca/weblog/2006/12/04/dions-big-day/#comment-49578 I'm encouraged by Dion's environmental leanings. We have a long way to go, though. I used to recycle more. But then I saw what happens to it... We used to own a small garbage pick up business (not standard service in rural areas) and one day while dumping trash at the dump another truck pulled up beside ours. Dumped a full load of recyclables right there. Asking the folks who work there at the dump, they said "it happens all the time." So don't be fooled. We have a LONG way to go. I’m encouraged by Dion’s environmental leanings. We have a long way to go, though. I used to recycle more. But then I saw what happens to it… We used to own a small garbage pick up business (not standard service in rural areas) and one day while dumping trash at the dump another truck pulled up beside ours. Dumped a full load of recyclables right there. Asking the folks who work there at the dump, they said “it happens all the time.” So don’t be fooled. We have a LONG way to go.

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