Goldstein: Global Warming cynicism
Lorrie Goldstein writes that Canadians care about global warming - so long as it doesn't hit them too hard in the pocketbook:
That radical environmentalists -- led by their Pied Piper, Al Gore -- have overplayed their hand by trying to scare us all to death.Read more at the Toronto Sun.
That most of us are now engaged in a cynical game with our politicians when it comes to climate change.
A game in which, as journalist George Monbiot writes in Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning, we say we care about global warming, as long as we don't have to do anything drastic about it.
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