Algore jaunting around the world on his private jet lecturing us about man-made global warming isn’t enough of a clue. His Royal Liberalness Prince (or is it Princess?) Charles, the Prince of Wales, flies over to evil America on a private jet-powered carriage to receive an award— an environmental award no less —then goes back home on same private carriage. No clue.
It goes on. For a similar story, read my blog entry from last Friday called 8 Democrats assemble for debate: each arrives on separate private jet.
Premiers’ conference lacks purpose, style
Don Martin, National Post
Published: Wednesday, May 02, 2007TORONTO – When questions about a meeting’s lack of purpose becomes the headline, premiers flying in from across Canada to discuss greenhouse gas emissions have a problem with substance AND style.
For the first time in decades, the premiers gathered here yesterday without provincial angst on their agenda or to utter a gripe or groan about Ottawa’s lousy funding arrangements into the microphones. They apparently wanted to chat about how bad greenhouse gases were for the climate and adjourn so that they can meet again in three months to sort out what alternative energies work best.
As best as I can figure, they have these choices: Hydro. Solar. Wind. Fuel cells. Nuclear. If anybody has a better light bulb of an idea to contribute, they should alert the world.
Which explains why reporters covering yesterday’s gathering of Canada’s premiers resorted to demanding they justify the hefty environmental footprint left behind by twelve entourages flying in from Victoria to St. John’s to Yellowknife to tsktsk over the carbon their voters exhale. They were asked if they’d done environmental penance by buying tree planting credits in foreign countries to overcome the guilt of jet-generated emissions. No, they said, but point well taken.
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Also read this column by Dan Gardner called Grampa Simpson for the environment in the Ottawa Citizen, which, aside from the needless and rather ironic fawning for The Prophet Suzuki in its beginning, is good.
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