Climate Change Football

[da_lj]

The recent UN report on climate change released in Paris last week seems to be affecting Canadian politics much more strongly than those in the US, though I was interested to see that the NYT article on that report is currently their most emailed and blogged story. But not so for a few other papers I just looked at, namely the Cleveland Plain

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[driftingfocus]

I remember reading a website recently that listed what we could do in the US with the amount of money that the Iraq War costs us every day. For just one day's cost of the war, we could outfit something like one million homes with renewable energy. Hell, within a few months, we could probably outfit the entire country!

Aha, found it.

It's so incredibly depressing.

Re: Quebec - The separatists have once again won the majority, right?

[da_lj]

Hey, I had forgotten about this entry entirely. And ethanol still sounds like a bad idea, now for even better reasons.

But now I can vote here. And I might print this for my Q Meeting's Peace and Social Action Committee to consider for action.

Re: Quebec: I actually had to go look it up; the Bloc Québécois was voted for by 42% of Québécois in the last federal election. The Parti Québécois got 28% of the vote in their 2007 provincial election. So, no majority.

[driftingfocus]

I think it must have been the federal election that I was thinking of.

Reading your citizenship entries was very interesting for me. When I return from Korea, my boyfriend Marc and I are considering the possibility of moving to Quebec. He's French, and I also speak French, and so through that and a few other reasons, we both pretty much max out the points for the skilled-worker visa. So, I found reading about your experiences to be very informative.