Environmentalists don't like the Green Plan! Wow! I, for one, am shocked. Apparently, the Conservative Government is not doing enough for the environment, since they are not going to meet the Kyoto 2008-2012 targets.
I'm not going to talk about the Green Plan right now. I will later, but not now. Now is the time to talk about environmentalists. They all say they want to see the Conservatives act on the environment. The opposition parties say this is more important than partisan politics. Yet they have given the Conservatives no political motivation to achieve anything substantive.
No matter what the Conservatives do, it won't be enough unless they can meet the reduction targets set by Kyoto. There is no compromise, no "good first steps." Reductions start today, and we meet the targets, or it isn't good enough.
I watch a rant on Mike Duffy Live between Dale the Suzuki Foundation guy and Buzz Hargrove. It was hardly a clash of intellectual giants, but after Dale ranted about how it might take 3 years before we start seeing reductions, Duffy asked Buzz Hargrove "Are you every going to be able to satify people like Dale?" The answer is quite easy. If you have a Conservative party logo on your stationary, no.
Opposition parties are even worse. They call on the government to adhere to the Kyoto protocols, then when the government makes a concession to agree to absolute targets instead of intensity targets, they call it "the biggest flip flop they've ever made." Brilliant is your goal is to make the government look bad no matter what, but stupid if you actually care about the environment. I would never accuse them of the latter.
A note to environmentalists; you need a carrot to go with that stick. Stephen Harper has no motivation to give you anything you ask for. As a member of the public, I have no reason to trust anything you say. If I know what you are going to say before I know the issue, your opinion is irrelevant. And everyone knew you were going to hate the Green Plan before it was released.
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Well said... why should we do anything they say when we know there is 1) no hope of them ever voting for us, and 2) no hope of them ever giving us any kind of credit for anything we do.
And when you point out that Kyoto itself is no where near good enough, all you get back is a "ya well, at least it is a start."
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