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.

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.

Read more at the Toronto Sun.