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You know, at the end of days, I don’t think it really matters whether global warming is real or not, it has become such a big issue we have to do something about it. If we don’t it will hit us in the very spot we’re trying to protect with our inaction. Right smack dab in the middle of our pocket books.
Because a majority of the world’s consumers -in North America, Europe and elsewhere- think global warming is real and because we have hitched our economic well-being to those consumers’ appetites for our goods and services, we can’t afford to have an image as environmental laggards recklessly driving the planet towards destruction.
And that is the image we currently have. On the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, a coalition of over 400 NGOs bestowed a Fossil of the Day Award on Canada for our unwillingness to negotiate substantial reductions in our greenhouse gas emissions. We have become the poster child for countries with their heads in the (tar) sand.
It’s only a matter of time before European green-a-tics demand that their governments slap duties on imports made with “dirty” oil, as they like to characterize the sludge mined out of Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Or worse, they might demand outright bans. Just look at how wing nut animal activists managed to get the European Union to ban Canadian seal products.
And our new image as dinosaurs can’t be helping our tourism industry, not when Canada’s cache is as a place with large tracts of pristine wilderness. When people see TV pictures of billowing smoke stacks they don’t think, “that’s where I want to go for my nature holiday.”
The world’s consumers are demanding green: green energy, green products and green travel. They want to feel good about their purchases and we should be giving them what they want.
So even if we think the hysteria about global warming is seriously overblown, we should smile and nod and tell the crazies we’re right there with them and by the way would they like to buy some oil while they wait for us to develop new ways of powering their vehicles and heating their homes.
Even if global warming turns out to be much ado about nothing we’ll still end up with cleaner air and fresher water for our efforts, to go along with a world of appreciative customers eager for our goods and services. We’ll still be further ahead than if we dig in our heels and refuse to act.
And if the alarmists turn out to be right, then we’ll have managed to save the planet despite ourselves.
Now isn’t that the epitome of a win-win scenario?
adrian@kelowna.com
250-575-3517
2 Responses to “Adrian Nieoczym: Real or not, global warming is something we have to deal with”
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This new religion and former science (climatology) is a scam. Most of the believers (climatolojists) will argue that crazy people like me refuse to acknowledge the facts and data on global warming. Well, as to the question of weather or not the Earth is getting warmer, it is.
Now here is where people like me and climatolojists differ. A scientific mind must be SKEPTICAL by nature and not influenced by any ideological or political pressures. We must also be very careful to separate correlation and causation. Just because two events happen at the same time does not mean that they are linked in any way. Scientists have done much research on the subject. It seams that governments around the world repress any scientific facts that are contrary to this new fascism. Fact = all other planets are also warming at same rate as Earth. The EPA’s own report was suppressed by the current administration in June 09 because it did not reflect current policies, Google it, I dare you to think for yourself. To understand why climatolojy is so insidious, you only need ask, who benefits? Lets just prepare to live in a warmer world for a while.
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“Even if global warming turns out to be much ado about nothing we’ll still end up with cleaner air and fresher water for our efforts”
Unfortunately you and so many environmentally aware Canadians have missed the point of Copenhagen,it has nothing to do with cleaning up pollution,and everything to do with wealth transfer.
The environmental movement has been hijacked by industrial and financial giants,and behind the facade,they are planning to make billions trading hot air,while the environment is left unattended.
We “deniers” are every bit as anxious about pollution as the most ardent environmentalist, but rather than jumping on a “feel good” bandwagon, we are asking,”how will Kyoto or Copenhagen make any difference whatsoever in combatting pollution”?
With a bit of research, the answer is obvious,it won’t. Copenhagen/Kyoto were not designed to fight for clean air and water, but were designed to tax developed Nations to enrich the already rich, with a few bucks to third world dictators.
If we truly want to spend money fighting air and water pollution, let us spend every cent designated for “global warming/climate change” at home here in Canada,where we have some control over how the money is spent, and can audit the entire program to see real efforts are being made.
If the carbon offsets money was invested here instead of being sent overseas via Goldman Sachs, Canada should in a few years have the cleanest industries on earth, and Canadians will have benefitted with plenty of jobs installing and manufacturing anti-pollution equipment.
The alternative currently being rammed down our throats by the New Religion,would see billions of our tax dollars go off into the ether , minus those lovely commissions, for a net gain of nothing.
Let’s stop pollution,and let’s do it by spending our money at home.
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