Our sustainability woes are no science fiction
I'm still astounded and disappointed by the defensiveness of some Canadian Conservatives whenever someone mentions global warming. After all, Conservatives ought to be embracing green issues, if only for crass political advantage.
Mind you, most BC-based Conservatives seem to get it, but east of the Rockies, environmentalists' popularity is inversely proportional to the amount of revenue Alberta extracts from its tar sands.
Vancouver technology blogger David Drucker touches on the issues of sustainability in fascinating post on one of Isaac Asimov's early influences, science fiction writer Lawrence Manning. The description of the 1933 story "The Man Who Awoke" is a reminder that long before the words greenhouse gases were even part of our vocabulary, North Americans were well aware of the environmentally-unsustainable nature of their lifestyles.
You don't have to be green to save the ice caps. Just maintaining some fair measure of our own quite comfortable modern lifestyle within a paradigm of sustainability seems like a good enough reason to go green.
Mind you, most BC-based Conservatives seem to get it, but east of the Rockies, environmentalists' popularity is inversely proportional to the amount of revenue Alberta extracts from its tar sands.
Vancouver technology blogger David Drucker touches on the issues of sustainability in fascinating post on one of Isaac Asimov's early influences, science fiction writer Lawrence Manning. The description of the 1933 story "The Man Who Awoke" is a reminder that long before the words greenhouse gases were even part of our vocabulary, North Americans were well aware of the environmentally-unsustainable nature of their lifestyles.
You don't have to be green to save the ice caps. Just maintaining some fair measure of our own quite comfortable modern lifestyle within a paradigm of sustainability seems like a good enough reason to go green.
Labels: environment, green, Vancouver
