Deeper Shade of Green

Yup, once again, you can count on our politicians to come out as heroes for putting forth a bill (the Clean Air Act) that reduces emissions. Or can you? Not quite, because politicians love to placate people and still protect industries’ interests. And in this case that means basing reduction in emissions on something called intensity targets, which refers to the amount of greenhouse gases produced per unit of economic activity (GDP, for example). However that doesn’t help, because although we could be reducing the intensity targets, we could, at the same time be increasing our actual emissions. Basically, its a swindle, the kind you’d expect from smiling Harper. Oh I forgot, our honourable Mr. Harper. Or is it Harper, the Climate Criminal? Read more on this issue in David Suzuki’s weekly column.