No, silly! Not the Bush cabinet at their White House meeting this morning.
(The photo is courtesy of the White House. Can you find George? Clue: Skeletor Man is nearby.)
NO! It’s CANADA!
Canada: environmental bad boy
‘Sluggish, asleep at the wheel, haywire and incontinent.’ A leading green country a decade ago is found severely wanting in a new report, writes Anne McIlroy
Monday October 24, 2005
Canada’s international reputation as a boy scout on environmental issues has been in decline for well over a decade, and now a new report ranks it 28th out of 30 OECD countries on key indicators such as cutting greenhouse gas emissions and smog.
The damning report was commissioned by the David Suzuki Foundation, an environmental group based in Vancouver, and prepared by a team of scientists at Simon Fraser University. It found that Canada was the worst or second worse performer in the OECD on eight of 29 environmental indicators including per capita production of volatile organic emissions, one of the main components in smog, per capita generation of nuclear waste and energy use per unit of GDP. … Read all at The Guardian.
So that’s why the air smells funny when I turn my nose northward!
