Steve in Afghanistan

Wanted: A federal New Year's resolution on global warming

Peter Prontzos

Prime Minister Harper is a very intelligent man, but there are some things that he just can't understand. Or, more accurately, won't understand.

Harper's most dangerous delusion is not accepting the scientific consensus that the biggest threat facing Canada - and the world - is the destruction of our environment in general, and global warming in particular.

Protecting your people from danger should be the highest priority of any national leader. Yet while Harper wastes Canadian lives and treasure in Afghanistan, he ignores the most serious threat to national security.

He has long denied that global warming is real, and a few years ago, Harper actually claimed that the Kyoto Treaty "is a socialist plot to take money from rich countries and give it to poor ones." (As if that was a bad idea!)

But he is smart enough to know that now he has to portray himself as "green" if he wants to stay in power. Surveys show that Canadians understand that the emission of carbon dioxide and other noxious gases presents the single gravest danger to our country.

But like George Bush, Harper's "leadership" regarding environmental destruction is worse than weak; it is non-existent. Continue reading on the Gaianicity site and then return to post a comment.