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Climate change: Share stories from your community
- September 28, 2009 3:15 PM |
- By Your Voice
In advance of a United Nations summit in Copenhagen this December, people from more than 40 countries, including Canada, met over the weekend in a global consultation to discuss climate change. The results of the citizens' deliberations will be presented directly to Copenhagen delegates.
The Canadian forum took place at the University of Calgary and involved more than 100 representatives from across the country.
Check out what conference participants had to say about the meeting.
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Comments (5)
There is always this debate about communist states vs. democratic states and western ideology vs. eastern ideology.
I lived in China and Canada, and I come to this conclusion, some folks don't like the taste of Chinese spices and vice versa, some Chinese folks don't like the taste of western spices, what this implies is that everyone has their own taste and way of doing things, what works for you may not work for others, no one in China is calling out help to the world for savior, leave them alone and don't bash those that take pride in what they call their nation.
I am sure if they do, it won't be hard to get the word out. Show a little respect and stop trying to make everyone else like you, the world is a better place with more diversity.
The smoggy 70’s have been defeated and we are living longer now than at any time in human history as a species, so let’s be real rebels, real liberals and real progressives and start to doubt, question, challenge and legitimize authority.
Remember, we are telling our kids THE END IS NEAR. Let’s leave the hysterical fear mongering and moralizing to the neocons. Is this our very own WMD scam? I thought the right wingers motivated with fear and fear alone? Are we liberals turning into fascists? Is this the Greenzi 1939 of environ MENAL ism?
We have one life to live s
o why waste it with this embarrassing doomsday theory when 23 years of the CO2 theory clearly proves that this power to end “life as we know it-IPCC”, certainly should have started by now, let alone be “delayed” by little old La Nina, a “natural” force.
Resulting cooling disproves predicted warming. History will curse us all for this mess.
If it's humanity you love as an environmentalist, why not join the coming NEWGREENS movement that celebrates nature instead of condemning the 5 billion year old planet to death every chance you doomers get? This fearing the unknown is dragging us into a new Dark Age and history will prove me right.
Nature is all powerful and the mystery it always was so don’t fear for Nature as Nature is in charge, not you or I. Just look at David Nutzuki who while leading us to war against a non existent enemy of climate change (formerly known as just weather and climate variation) is saying we need to “stabilize” our climate. Holy Messianic? What? Make our planet like the inside of an indoor shopping mall? Is this modern day witch burning?
Preserve, protect, love, experience and RESPECT our world, not rescue it with needless fear from a CO2 mistake.
Reject this 23 year old “popular science” of CO2. You may lose a few friends but at least you will be ahead of the curve for now and called a “denier”.
Be a proud denier and join the NEWGREENS. Pollution is real. The global warming theory is not real or about pollution or relevant in responsible environmentalism.
Lets’ show our children how we can face the energy challenges of the future with courage, not this constant fear mongering motivation that distracts us from conscientious environmentalism.
This doomsday approach is not sustainable in our culture for another quarter of a century so watch for the next generation to bite back when we try to tell them they are going to die soon on sick planet from Catalytic Converter gas and plant food.
They will be real liberals, I promise.
I read some of the comments and can't stop to surprise of huge quantity of think-see-understand limited people live in this Earth.
I honestly won't regret if most of them finally suffer from changed planet. But the fact is we all will suffer, partly because of the people like these.
All I know for sure, if want to live in a world like before, we need to reconstruct the world to the way it was before.
Stop cut forests of Amazonian area, stop pollute rivers (like china), seas, oceans, stop kill animals, whales and dig like crazy for diamonds, coal, oil... what else do you want?
Use your brains to learn how to live in harmony with nature and planet.
Otherwise, sooner or later, this planet will erase this civilization, like some sort of disease out of its skin.
I find it quite disturbing that a news organization like the CBC has completely ignored the legitimate opposing view of Climate -Change.
There is a growing body of evidence by respected scientists all over the world that errors in the data have been made, and that important facts have been intentionally hidden to pursue a political objective.
As an employee of the citizens of Canada the CBC owes us an ubiased view of the truth.
Jest
The cbc is a good illustration of everything that is wrong with socialism .
The free market of ideas is true freedom amd that is only possible in a free market. The internet is relatively free and the mainstream media can not stand the competition . The maistream media is beijng revealed for the establishment shills that they are.
The agw agenda is about control . You have noticed that there is no room for dissent on the matter of agw and the "consensus" ... even as it is falling apart for all with eyes that see.
Shame on you cbc hypocrits for your one-sided reporting . We Canadians are forced to pay your wages through taxation and you have a moral imperative to reflect ALL of our views .