No single initiative can ever please everyone.
Take the planned wind turbine for the top of Grouse Mountain, for example. This is a green source of energy (really? something green?), and there are actually people who oppose it.
The main two arguments appear to be aesthetics, and injury to birds and bats.
(Um... what?)
OK, (sigh). I'll go ahead an address the aesthetic issue. Have they seen photos of Beijing and its smog? All from, UM, NON-GREEN ENERGY? So which is worse, a mountain with a little wind turbine sticking out of it, or
(me resisting the fist-clenching urge to type in all caps again)
one you can't see at all???
As for the birds and bats, while it is unfortunate that some of them may fly into the blades of the turbine, I'm willing to bet that many die on a regular basis as a direct result of pollution.
"This is [an issue of] green energy versus protecting wildlife,"
Coun. Lisa Muri
Huh??? What???
(more fist clenching)
BIG PICTURE, people, big picture.
One opponent even went as far as to call the turbine, which will provide enough clean energy for 400 homes, "another tourist attraction."
Oh my God.
Whatever...
Showing posts with label clean up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clean up. Show all posts
Is One Day A Year Enough To Save The Planet?
"We grow corn that hungry people need to eat, but turn it instead into biofuel to run our automobiles"
- Alan Ferguson, The Province, April 22, 2008
That pretty much sums up for me all that is wrong with the world.
Today as I waited for my daughter after Kindergarten, I watched another class out in the field with garbage cans and salad tongs as they picked up garbage, presumably in honour of Earth Day. This got me wondering if one day a year is really enough.
It becomes like Christmas. We all mean to practice good will to all men through out the year, but human nature rears it's cranky head and we forget, until next season. On Thanksgiving we count our blessings, and then promptly return to taking everything we cherish for granted.
These same kids who scoured the playground with such enthusiasm today will more than likely return to the old habit of tossing their garbage on the grass if a can is not handy. They're nice kids - they're just afflicted with human nature.
If we want to be cranky to one another or take each other for granted, that's one thing, but destroying the planet is a whole other problem.
Why not have Earth Day once per month? It could be, say, the first or last Monday, for example (a week day is better because it would require school participation). At the very worst, if it fails to create new habits, at least we'd clean up more often...
- Alan Ferguson, The Province, April 22, 2008
That pretty much sums up for me all that is wrong with the world.
Today as I waited for my daughter after Kindergarten, I watched another class out in the field with garbage cans and salad tongs as they picked up garbage, presumably in honour of Earth Day. This got me wondering if one day a year is really enough.
It becomes like Christmas. We all mean to practice good will to all men through out the year, but human nature rears it's cranky head and we forget, until next season. On Thanksgiving we count our blessings, and then promptly return to taking everything we cherish for granted.
These same kids who scoured the playground with such enthusiasm today will more than likely return to the old habit of tossing their garbage on the grass if a can is not handy. They're nice kids - they're just afflicted with human nature.
If we want to be cranky to one another or take each other for granted, that's one thing, but destroying the planet is a whole other problem.
Why not have Earth Day once per month? It could be, say, the first or last Monday, for example (a week day is better because it would require school participation). At the very worst, if it fails to create new habits, at least we'd clean up more often...
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