Cutting Back Emissions

I think it is fair that Canada does that even though we are a small part of the population compared to that of the globe and our portion of greenhouse gases are far less. We should not be looking at what China does as an example. They are far too eager to continue the development initiated by Nixon in the late seventies and that means more pollution for a larger segment of the world’s population. Canada would be setting an example even though our oil producing and other smog related industries would suffer. But wouldn’t that be impetus for the development of green industries here?

We should not be blaming the UN for their involvement in the matter, Bush blamed the UN for their incompetence regarding peacekeeping efforts when he undermined peace initiatives and continued his war effort in the Middle East and southern Asia. Canada has followed in tow by replicated American politics here, selling our resources off cheap to our neighbors to the south and sending men overseas to get killed in an open ended, non-declared, polluting war. We have pretended to be conscious of the greenhouse emissions by signing a Kyoto agreement and then by refusing to abide by any emission controls. If any blame should be made, it should not fall on an organization, which has no political clout and is dependent on the will of countries as these.

Canada should continue setting an example that it had before the Kyoto agreement was signed. There are livelihoods dependant on the tar sands out west and that has caused an increase of green house emissions and the government should phase those industries down but frankly those people involved in the refinement and digging of the sands and the industries it has fed will be against it. That has been going on for the past forty years. This is what the government will have to concern themselves with in order to maintain its place a world leader in the fight against continued pollution.

Organizations like the UN have been dependant on the will of strong political states that effect their will through their veto power. That is how the UN intervened in some of the recent world conflicts like the Suez Canal one in the fifties and the Israeli-Palestine conflicts. Pollution should not be treated as a political peon and it is up to the contributing political powers to curb their own waste for a safer future.