How Green?
Green was a word that used to denote someone who hadn't any experience. It's undergone quite a transformation in nomenclature in the last several decades.
Green now indicates environment, and as such places a halo over the head of anyone professing to be green in their orientation. Green thinking relates to concern over the environment. It's abundantly clear we haven't been thinking enough about our environment and the damage we do to it, incessantly.
Climate change has changed all that. We now think of climatic disasters barrelling in on vulnerable landscapes, leaving death and destruction in their wake.
And that's merely one symptom of climate change. There are so many, coming at us in so many hitherto unsuspected ways that we hardly know where to turn for comfort. So we're ripe and ready to be lectured and shown ways in which we can be more environmentally sensitive in our everyday lives.
All governments, throughout the world, are now thoroughly convinced that the environment is in the process of being altered in ways that will most certainly prove to be inimical to humankind, let alone the other creatures of this Globe. Scientists in great numbers have told us so, even if we don't quite believe our own senses, and the news stories that report constantly on the effects of climate change.
Canada's politicians are of various minds about how this country should proceed in doing its part in attempting to rescue the environment from further degradation. Remediation efforts will require a gigantic effort with everyone committed to doing their part, from the individual up to giant corporations whose manufacturing or primary commodities-extraction methods further exacerbate an already deteriorating environment.
Canadians are rightly concerned. We have adapted our routines to acknowledging the small changes we can make to our own lives. There are certain alterations to our routines that can be useful, with no great effort on our part, and other, more intrusive changes that threaten to delimit our pleasure in doing as we will, when we will, damn the consequences.
The Green Party of Canada has presented itself as the premier political party capable of bringing Canada on line in recognizing the best possible political-social scenario that will transform this country from a wastrel-energy nation to a modest-use population.
There will be pain, we're assured, but the gain is that we will have done the right thing, in helping to avert an even worse disaster than if we hadn't made the effort.
The argument of the Green Party is unassailable in that regard, and they're determined to bring us around to the reality of the need to do more, far more, than we're really prepared to commit to.
They've a large selling job. But then they're dedicated to achieving success. And in the relatively few years they've been on the political scene in Canada as a party in opposition to the same staid old parties, demonstrating lacklustre impetus in enacting useful green legislation, they've made some notable inroads in the public consciousness.
Trouble is, unfortunately, they haven't yet met with any success in electing one single Member of Parliament.
They're credible in their longer outreach, presenting a platform that is more than respectable, embracing all of the social and political pressures any country must recognize. They were able to advance candidates in all of the ridings across the country, and many did reasonably well. Not, however, well enough to win one single riding.
As a percentage of the popular vote, they come in at roughly 8%. Reason would have it that they should rate at least a handful of Members of Parliament, elected in ridings whose voters found their message compelling enough to back them. On the other hand, how much credibility can the voting public invest in a leader who exercises such abysmal judgement as to run in a riding where she is certain to be defeated?
For a responsible leader to display such an absurd attitude, claiming that she feels comfortable there, feels she belongs there, and has faith that she will be successful, despite the odds against success, speaks to a personality unwilling to face reality, although her green platform is geared to bringing Canadians around to facing reality of a different kind.
Elizabeth May can proclaim her satisfaction in her campaign, claim she wouldn't have conducted it any other way, is proud of her decision to run in Peter MacKay's riding, but her absurd stubbornness, her lack of awareness, her inability to see that she manufactured her own defeat, speaks ill of her capabilities, her ability to act as a leader of a responsible political party.
Pity. Ms. May, leader of the Green Party in Canada, has amply demonstrated herself as green as they come, in the original sense.
Green now indicates environment, and as such places a halo over the head of anyone professing to be green in their orientation. Green thinking relates to concern over the environment. It's abundantly clear we haven't been thinking enough about our environment and the damage we do to it, incessantly.
Climate change has changed all that. We now think of climatic disasters barrelling in on vulnerable landscapes, leaving death and destruction in their wake.
And that's merely one symptom of climate change. There are so many, coming at us in so many hitherto unsuspected ways that we hardly know where to turn for comfort. So we're ripe and ready to be lectured and shown ways in which we can be more environmentally sensitive in our everyday lives.
All governments, throughout the world, are now thoroughly convinced that the environment is in the process of being altered in ways that will most certainly prove to be inimical to humankind, let alone the other creatures of this Globe. Scientists in great numbers have told us so, even if we don't quite believe our own senses, and the news stories that report constantly on the effects of climate change.
Canada's politicians are of various minds about how this country should proceed in doing its part in attempting to rescue the environment from further degradation. Remediation efforts will require a gigantic effort with everyone committed to doing their part, from the individual up to giant corporations whose manufacturing or primary commodities-extraction methods further exacerbate an already deteriorating environment.
Canadians are rightly concerned. We have adapted our routines to acknowledging the small changes we can make to our own lives. There are certain alterations to our routines that can be useful, with no great effort on our part, and other, more intrusive changes that threaten to delimit our pleasure in doing as we will, when we will, damn the consequences.
The Green Party of Canada has presented itself as the premier political party capable of bringing Canada on line in recognizing the best possible political-social scenario that will transform this country from a wastrel-energy nation to a modest-use population.
There will be pain, we're assured, but the gain is that we will have done the right thing, in helping to avert an even worse disaster than if we hadn't made the effort.
The argument of the Green Party is unassailable in that regard, and they're determined to bring us around to the reality of the need to do more, far more, than we're really prepared to commit to.
They've a large selling job. But then they're dedicated to achieving success. And in the relatively few years they've been on the political scene in Canada as a party in opposition to the same staid old parties, demonstrating lacklustre impetus in enacting useful green legislation, they've made some notable inroads in the public consciousness.
Trouble is, unfortunately, they haven't yet met with any success in electing one single Member of Parliament.
They're credible in their longer outreach, presenting a platform that is more than respectable, embracing all of the social and political pressures any country must recognize. They were able to advance candidates in all of the ridings across the country, and many did reasonably well. Not, however, well enough to win one single riding.
As a percentage of the popular vote, they come in at roughly 8%. Reason would have it that they should rate at least a handful of Members of Parliament, elected in ridings whose voters found their message compelling enough to back them. On the other hand, how much credibility can the voting public invest in a leader who exercises such abysmal judgement as to run in a riding where she is certain to be defeated?
For a responsible leader to display such an absurd attitude, claiming that she feels comfortable there, feels she belongs there, and has faith that she will be successful, despite the odds against success, speaks to a personality unwilling to face reality, although her green platform is geared to bringing Canadians around to facing reality of a different kind.
Elizabeth May can proclaim her satisfaction in her campaign, claim she wouldn't have conducted it any other way, is proud of her decision to run in Peter MacKay's riding, but her absurd stubbornness, her lack of awareness, her inability to see that she manufactured her own defeat, speaks ill of her capabilities, her ability to act as a leader of a responsible political party.
Pity. Ms. May, leader of the Green Party in Canada, has amply demonstrated herself as green as they come, in the original sense.
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