Comments on: Washington Growth Industry http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/2009/03/03/washington-growth-industry/ Global warming, climate change, activism Thu, 17 May 2012 06:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Laurence Miall http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/2009/03/03/washington-growth-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Laurence Miall Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:49:32 +0000 http://one-blue-marble.com/blog/?p=297#comment-150 Once a lobbyist gets involved, I'm skeptical! Even if they are lobbying for more government financing of "greener" solutions. In Alberta, the government's support for carbon storage from the oil sands looks like a giant ($2 billion) distraction from the real solution -- that we have to consume less of everything. Carbon store is as yet, unproven. This is a PR exercise. I fear many more government efforts will be like this. Giving $2billion away, oftentimes to the very same companies that create the problem in the first place, is putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse. So far, governments would rather do anything rather than tell us the hard truth: our way of life has ended, we need to find a new way forward. Once a lobbyist gets involved, I’m skeptical! Even if they are lobbying for more government financing of “greener” solutions. In Alberta, the government’s support for carbon storage from the oil sands looks like a giant ($2 billion) distraction from the real solution — that we have to consume less of everything. Carbon store is as yet, unproven. This is a PR exercise. I fear many more government efforts will be like this. Giving $2billion away, oftentimes to the very same companies that create the problem in the first place, is putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse.

So far, governments would rather do anything rather than tell us the hard truth: our way of life has ended, we need to find a new way forward.

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