J’ai cosigné ce matin dans le journal The Gazette une lettre ouverte avec Rick Smith, Tzeporah Berman et Dale Marshall. Bien qu’elle soit en anglais seulement, je vous invite à la lire :

Wake up, Canada, before it’s too late

We should be leading the pack in the race to fight global warming

While U.S. President Barack Obama has been meeting with China, the world’s largest greenhouse-gas emitter, trying to galvanize an international climate agreement, Canada, which uses more energy per capita than almost any other country, is like the hare that lies down for a nap while the tortoise overtakes it. Only Canada hasn’t woken up from its nap, and the consequences of sleeping a little longer grow exponentially by the day.

It’s not really fair to blame Canada. It’s really the federal government that’s asleep. The Canadian public has already woken up; 62 per cent of us say Ottawa should set « higher and harder targets » to reduce global warming pollution, according to Harris-Decima polling this October.

Seems something of this has gotten to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who recently proposed a cap-and-trade system that would actually reduce global warming pollution. Lire la suite