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Canadians are the worst polluters? We've been judged as one of the top three Worst Polluters in the World :( We've been judged and tried by population density that we are in fact with out mistake one of the three worst polluting countries of the world. Doesn't sound right does it? Beijing prepared to play host to the 2008 Olympic Games using the official Blue Sky ratings, yet grey, acrid skies rated an eye-reddening, broncual causing failing grade. As athletes reported after three or four they start getting a dry cough, and having problems "dislodging the knot that develops". Later, players "start to feel the strain which the lungs are under while running. All of a sudden, everything gets harder. A run that you can easily do back home, suddenly becomes a real effort. It's a very odd sensation." and it wasn't just the Canadian teams. Healthy athletes from around the world could not compete because of health issues from Beijing's environment. Maybe they should have used masks and respirators like the locals. In Chi Minh City, Vietnam, pollution is so bad that Japanese cargo ships are refusing to dock for fears it will corrode the hulls of their boats. In Mexico environmental abuse is measured by the children that are born and the kinds of physical defects they have do to slack environmental enforcement. In India chemically infested ships lay along the shore line and are cut down by torches there the welders uses only a set of goggles to protect their eyes while inhaling the chemically infested fumes and smoke burning off the hauls as they are cut down. Nobody even gives a second thought to the chemicals that are leaching into the water were the poverty stricken families live, drink, bathe, play and swim. As I headed up north this past weekend, just a couple of hours north of Toronto, I can fill my coffee pot with out using tap or bottled water, just what mother nature offers me, sit it on a cosy fire and take a deep breath of fresh air while looking up into a crystal clear sky full of stars. I can't help but think "Hhhhum have to be a group of dim-witted people to rate Canadians as one of the "Worst Three Polluters" in the World. Maybe what they need to do is go to Chi Minh City, Vietnam, dunk there coffee pot into the harbour and have a good cup of coffee to wake themselves up." I can't help thinking to myself "Shame on them, have they no class or intelligence?" And then what do I see when I return? As I watch the news I see Dr. Suzuki on TV making his comments on the Canadian environment and we should be leading the way.
I believe Canadians have pushed pretty hard to clean up as not only my taxes reflect but the way jobs are pulling out of Canada with another 4,300 jobs lost last month and I bet you most of them have gone to places like Mexico and Asia. What's wrong with this picture - am I missing something? |
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