North America far exceeds China in PER CAPITA emissions. It was only exceeded in 2008 by Australia. Compared to the global emissions, North America IS the problem. The First World has the technology, capital investment and the infrastructure to turn this around on a dime, but, political corruption won't allow it. Just that simple.
Global Mining and Tar Sands Oil Drive Canadian Foreign Policy (click here)
The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy [Kindle Edition] (click here)
The longer the negative feedback loops of greenhouse gases exist the more impossible is becoming to reverse the trends of biotic destruction.
January 28, 2013
BOSTON - Defying the cold weather, (click here) demonstrations, pickets at Massachusetts gas stations, and a march and rally in Portland, Maine, Saturday capped off a week of actions from Canada to Massachusetts aimed at heading off plans to pump corrosive Canadian tar sands oil across New England and into ships for export....
A tar sands pipeline (click here) that burst in 2010 contaminated Michigan's Kalamazoon River. Protests are being held around New England against using a 62-year-old pipeline to move Canadian tar sands to Portland for export. Photo courtesy NWF
BOSTON - Defying the cold weather, (click here) demonstrations, pickets at Massachusetts gas stations, and a march and rally in Portland, Maine, Saturday capped off a week of actions from Canada to Massachusetts aimed at heading off plans to pump corrosive Canadian tar sands oil across New England and into ships for export....
Now, I ask you, are the citizens of Canada and the USA that care about the greenhouse gas emissions and its effect on Earth while the petroleum industry (tar sands included) destroys our land; lousy, stinking bastards that care nothing about their country? Is their case baseless? I think not.
Just because Republicans in the USA find political volleys with the issue of monies in the USA's budget and national debt, ask me what the hell I care! Grow a new economy, change the paradigm of disaster we all face and we will solve the national fiscal issues without even trying. When the political dialogue starts talking MY LANGUAGE then we'll get somewhere.
