What is wrong with me today? First I (kind of) defend the Tories for their use of leadership convention coverage, and now I’m sitting here doing it again for their stance on Kyoto!
So Stephen Harper wrote this letter dismissing “Kyoto” as a socialist pyramid scheme. I have no doubt that Stephen has a great deal of doubt about Kyoto (my Writer’s Craft teacher will convulse if he reads that…) However, it is not so easy to paint each and every Tory with that same brush, although that’s really what’s going on. Dion and the Liberals are being smart here, and only going after those who made statements rejecting climate change; but the blogging community is not being as selective, which is concerning.
The fact is that Kyoto, while a good start (and I’d rather be a participant than outsider) was an agreement with serious flaws, and it is/was possible to deal with greenhouse gas emissions without participation. Lets focus on condemning those Tories who have actually taken an anti-environmental position, instead of lashing out at all of them because some of them didn’t buy into our plan for solving the problem.
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