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Canada is a place where the prevailing instinct is to want it all, no matter the consequences. Sure, there may be a war in Afghanistan, wars in the Middle East, Islamic militants on the march, smog in the air, pollutants in the water, hurricanes, floods and other tangible side-effects of global warming but that's not going to stop most Canadians from hankering after a big car and a big house with state-of-the-art gadgets. Cutting back is not cool or sexy. Given the choice between laboriously reviving old city centres with apartment renovations and corner shops and ripping up cornfields to create suburban developments with huge houses and monster shopping malls, most Canadians opt for the monster. People certainly have mixed feelings. We were warned years ago that a point of no return on global warming could be reached in less than 10 years but, it is still not uncommon to see new, huge, gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive SUVs on our roads. Canadians aren't happy about their obesity epidemic or their tendency to overspend in grocery stores or over-order in restaurants either but, they continue to consume billions of calories a day more than they need and throw away thousands of tons of edible food each day. But will anything ever change? Telling Canadians to consume less doesn't work. Giving them environmentally smarter versions of the same things - more fuel-efficient cars, better insulated houses, less heavily packaged food - may be a more promising avenue. Until the government, however, gets serious about forcing manufacturers to produce these things, the age of the more rational Canadian consumer will remain a distant prospect. Une lettre ouverte au Ministre de l'Environnement du Canada http://www.justiceplus.org/La-revolution-verte.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Harper-tente-d-esquiver-Kyoto.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Le-grogne-albertain.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Le-Quebec-Face-aux-changements-climatiques.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Al-Gore-Urgence-Climatique.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Nous-sommes-tannes.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Les-dents-de-la-Terre.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Pour-quelques-degres-de-plus.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/A-Letter-to-Mr-Harper.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Urgence-a-agir.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Assise-sur-une-bombe-a-retardement.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Al-Gore-La-Crise-Climatique.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Les-caves.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Grandes-inquietudes-devant-l-inaction.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Une-bouffee-d-air-frais.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Mieux-miser-sur-le-transport-en-commun.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Mankind-faces-self-inflicted-threat-of-extinction.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Vers-le-point-de-non-retour.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/LETTRE-OUVERTE-A-MON-DEPUTE.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Lettre-au-ministre-Bechard.htm Il reste moins de 10 ans pour éviter le catastrophe ! Le rechauffement climatique et la grenouille Je vous tiens entièrement responsable Le citoyen est plus qu'un simple bulletin de vote http://www.justiceplus.org/LE-MANIFESTE-DE-LA-CMCC.htm http://www.fight-hegemony.org/cmcc/ http://www.justiceplus.org/Face-aux-changements-climatiques.htm http://www.justiceplus.org/Effondrement-du-climat.htm
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