Earth Day 2007. The day when everyone gets sentimental about our beautiful planet. Tells it how much we love it, and how we must save it from ourselves.
How touching. I'm sure the planet would be moved to monsoon tears by all those warm feelings. Just like I am. If we hadn't been doing fuck all to save it. And it wasn't burning up.
Although ...for comic relief.... there's always Earth Day in Canada.
With Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government poised to set its own course to cut greenhouse gas emissions, thousands marched in Montreal with smaller crowds gathering across the country to demand the Conservatives honour the targets of the Kyoto treaty.
When very few do very little.....John Baird plants a tree, Stephane Dion makes another boring speech, and Jack takes a shower...
After taking a shower Sunday morning with water heated by solar power, NDP Leader Jack Layton — along with wife and fellow MP Olivia Chow — rode their bicycles on a sunny afternoon to join an estimated 250 people in the Toronto parade.
Wow! Now that's making a statement. Especially if ...since this is Canada.... they had to shower together to make sure the hot water didn't run out. I'm all in favour of that.
And I loved the idea of the bike rally too. I wanted to go but I couldn't get there because of all the cars ....
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They closed down a nearby expressway so the filthy monsters swarmed my neighbourhood. I love biking more than almost anything else. I don't mind taking risks to have fun. But riding a bike through traffic like this....
Seems like suicide...
I hate cars in cities. I wish more could be done to keep them out of the downtown areas...like they do in some places in Europe. But Canadians seem to love their cars so much, and we're so dependent on the car industry, we're practically hooked on the dirty things.
If you don't believe me check out the official site of Earth Day in Canada.
Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program.
Toyota Canada and Earth Day Canada would like to recognize dedicated student environmental leaders for their commitment to their schools and communities..
Isn't that great? The solution brought to you by the problem...
Which when you add it all up....and separate the fraud from the farce... means that those of us who believe in biking our way around where we live...and public transportation...are going to have to keep on dodging cars...
And hope we can get as good as these guys are....
And even if we do ....and it does look easy....hope that even as they kill the planet.
They don't kill medicare.....
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