Venezuala? Iran? Saudi Arabia? Or, we can always go with the ever popular (among climahysterics) United States. Sorry, none of the above, as climate alarmist George Monbiot weighs in
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. (WT- you just knew BDS had to be slipped in somewhere)
Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
Notice how George Monbiot so easily abandoned his principles regarding flying in order to head from the UK to Canada in order to call them evil?
Ok, let’s see. Kyoto, Copenhagen, oil bad, Canada bad, Canada gave the world the finger……..hmm, I’m not finding an sort of mention of what Canada can do differently, other than do away with their oil industry, and then all you Canadians can freeze to death. Sorry, it’s for a “good cause.” Suck it up, buttercups. Your deaths will bring awareness.
See what happened was, when push came to shove, Canadians decided they liked having energy. They liked having money. They didn’t want to party like it was 1699. And they realized that all these idiotic AGW treaties and laws did nothing but make them poor.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Parliament has defeated their version of cap and screw everybody except AGW researchers legislation. Oh, and Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, should perhaps chill on his world wide air travel before saying their should be big taxes on air travel.
