Emissions

The Conservatives have come out with a new plan for emissions that have to do with pollution and global warming. It's not agressive, but it's more than the Liberals were doing. The fact that they're doing something will get the Conservatives points. I think, though, that the public wants more than the Conservatives realize. Stéphane Dion, if he wants to be credible, needs to come up with a very very clear plan with real numbers. This is, of course, all posturing. As we all bicker and position ourselves in our minds the world outside our minds, the very real world, goes on. In this real world looms the seemingly very real threat that if we don't do anything significant, crops will fail, glaciers providing drinking water for hundreds of millions of people will be gone, coastal regions will flood, coral reefs ecosystems will die off, crustaceans will have more difficulty making shells, and who knows what else. If even some of this comes to pass, near-term job loss concerns will seem stunningly trivial and stupid to our kids and grand-kids.