Smog!!!
I’ll be happy to return to my GO Train ritual tomorrow. Day 2 of my training course ends today. Travelling from one GTA outlier to another sprawling outlier (Markham) has been brutal. Driving was the only option and with 150Kms worth of rush hour driving in 2 days I can only be glad it’s not my regular mode of commuting. The HUGE smog halo around the sun is a painful reminder my own and US pollution “gifts” (about 50-60% of Toronto’s airbourne pollutants come from south of the border).
Well Oil is at $64 a barrell as we enter the twilight of the Petroleum era…
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/4189/The_Twilight_Era_of_Petroleum
The air quality, inflation, and the economy are in for more shocks… That is if nothing is done about. Hopefully Mr. Miller can affect more change with respect to Urban Transit. After all INFRASTRUCTURE spending helps us all. I could help but think this when Toronto was eyeing the Olympics. How could we really host the games if we can barely handle the traffic volumes of a Raptors or Leafs game…
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also the fact that the US, the country that emits 25% of the worlds greenhouse gases, hasn’t signed the kyoto protocol. bush feels that though he supports the idea of the treaty, it would put a terrible strain on the US economy. err…right.
he also says,
The world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases is China. Yet, China was entirely exempted from the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. This is a challenge that requires a 100 percent effort; ours, and the rest of the world’s. America’s unwillingness to embrace a flawed treaty should not be read by our friends and allies as any abdication of responsibility. To the contrary, my administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change. Our approach must be consistent with the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
(read above as horse shit.)