CANADA WAS AN EMBARASSMENT AT RIO+20

On June 26/12 Thomas Walkom had published this story "At Rio+20, Canada furiously backpedals on the environment". For me this story is more of a political than environmental one. It used to be sheik to be pro environment. Now it doesn't even seem to cost votes, not to be. Quoting Mr. Walkom "Yet many nations, including Canada, chose not to honour their commitments. When Harper came to power, all he had to do was deep-six Kyoto's corpse." "The other reason is that anti-environmentalists have raised their game. Theey don't call themselves anti-environmentalists, of course. They say quite the opposite. But the oil companies and carbon producers who fear that action against greenhouse gases might hurt their profits have a far firmer grip on government and, through advertising, on the popular imagination than they did in 1992. Their mouthpieces in government routinely denounce as radical ideologues those who dare complain."

Thomas Walkom's final paragraph is very sad for all future generations. "If the original Rio was a triumph for the environment, Rio+20 belongs to the antis. we are furiously pedalling backwards."