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One of the things I don't like about having a c-section is the idea of how much garbage and waste will be created. I dislike all the junk from hospitals. I've started taking my own little jar with me to my doctor's office because otherwise they get me to pee in a new plastic cup each time and throw it out. My doctor in Montreal didn't do that. She got everyone to take home and bring back the same little cup. Perhaps people think that is disgusting, but it really isn't a big deal. Anyway, the hospital will mean a lot of extra waste, and I dislike that. It seems stupid to worry about that when I know a lot of people would be angrier about the whole idea of having to have a c-section in the first place, but I guess I'm coming to accept having another c-section so I turn my anger to little stupider things.
One of my goals for today was to sit and write letters to Canadian Senators regarding Bill C311, The Climate Change Accountability Act. The Act passed in the house but is stalled in the Senate and several organizations are calling for letter writing campaigns. The idea is that the Conservatives aren't willing to actually vote against the Bill in the senate, because the Bill is popular. But, they don't want to pass it either, so they just keep holding it up. (http://www.trunity.net/climateresponse/topics/view/53728/#At_Issue)
But the more I read about environmental issues, the more I think that one of the main issues is native rights. If we in Canada acknowledged the rights of Aboriginal groups to control their traditional territories (at least those they haven't given up through treaties) then we'd be held back from a lot of the environmental damage we're causing. The Lubricon Cree claim rights to a lot of the area in Northern Alberta, where the tar sands developments are happening, and they're not happy with their land being polluted. In Ontario those at the Grassy Narrows are trying to prevent logging in their territory from being resumed. Then there's the natives of Fish Lake, B.C., that are trying to prevent their sacred lake from being drained to make way for an open pit gold and copper mine. Or the natives in B.C. trying to prevent Enron from running a pipeline from the tar sands through the Great Bear Rainforest. So many environmental issues could be resolved if the political will could be developped to allow native groups to control their own lands. As I type that, I think, people might argue that if the native groups really had control, they might be bought out by the companies, and perhaps they might, but they are so much less likely to than politicians elsewhere are, since they are there drinking the water and eating the local food and thus have an insentive to keep the water and soil clean.
One of the things I don't like about having a c-section is the idea of how much garbage and waste will be created. I dislike all the junk from hospitals. I've started taking my own little jar with me to my doctor's office because otherwise they get me to pee in a new plastic cup each time and throw it out. My doctor in Montreal didn't do that. She got everyone to take home and bring back the same little cup. Perhaps people think that is disgusting, but it really isn't a big deal. Anyway, the hospital will mean a lot of extra waste, and I dislike that. It seems stupid to worry about that when I know a lot of people would be angrier about the whole idea of having to have a c-section in the first place, but I guess I'm coming to accept having another c-section so I turn my anger to little stupider things.
One of my goals for today was to sit and write letters to Canadian Senators regarding Bill C311, The Climate Change Accountability Act. The Act passed in the house but is stalled in the Senate and several organizations are calling for letter writing campaigns. The idea is that the Conservatives aren't willing to actually vote against the Bill in the senate, because the Bill is popular. But, they don't want to pass it either, so they just keep holding it up. (http://www.trunity.net/climateresponse/topics/view/53728/#At_Issue)
But the more I read about environmental issues, the more I think that one of the main issues is native rights. If we in Canada acknowledged the rights of Aboriginal groups to control their traditional territories (at least those they haven't given up through treaties) then we'd be held back from a lot of the environmental damage we're causing. The Lubricon Cree claim rights to a lot of the area in Northern Alberta, where the tar sands developments are happening, and they're not happy with their land being polluted. In Ontario those at the Grassy Narrows are trying to prevent logging in their territory from being resumed. Then there's the natives of Fish Lake, B.C., that are trying to prevent their sacred lake from being drained to make way for an open pit gold and copper mine. Or the natives in B.C. trying to prevent Enron from running a pipeline from the tar sands through the Great Bear Rainforest. So many environmental issues could be resolved if the political will could be developped to allow native groups to control their own lands. As I type that, I think, people might argue that if the native groups really had control, they might be bought out by the companies, and perhaps they might, but they are so much less likely to than politicians elsewhere are, since they are there drinking the water and eating the local food and thus have an insentive to keep the water and soil clean.