A recent headline, built around words belonging to Peter Kent, Canada’s federal Conservative Environment Minister, proves as much.
[rhetoric n. impressive, but insincere, exaggerated]
“We’re halfway home,” says Mr. Kent.
But where’s home? And would I want to live with him there?
Conservative Prime Minister S. Harper ripped up the Kyoto Protocol and replaced it with his own targets. Out went the stringent and the necessary. In came the weaker, the global warming brush off.
And though federal officials admit more must be done, and Kent says “the Harper government has been working hard,” very little action has actually been done by our government, thus paving the way for even less to be done in the future.
Though Canadians can give a nod to a few provincial governments, do many believe 'federal standards for fuel efficiency on light cars and trucks’ will lead us toward a sustainable future related to fuel, energy and resource use?
[“I highly doubt it,” says an environment critic.]
Peter Kent’s words are nothing but rhetoric and hyperbole.
I have more faith in Clark Kent, bicycles, smaller meals and conservation of vital resources.
You?
[Photos by G.Harrison]
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Please click here to read Canada’s Global Warming File PT 2: Peter Kent vs Clark Kent
Link to Free Press article by D. Akins
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