by Gerry Nicholls
Canada’s High Priest of Climate Change, AKA David Suzuki, has blustered into the Ontario election like a global-warming caused hurricane.
More specifically he has endorsed Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty’s energy schemes, saying: “I happen to applaud the future he’s leading us into.”
Now for me this is ample reason to vote for anybody but McGuinty.
Why do I say that?
Well first off, even by the loopy standards of tree huggers Suzuki’s views are extreme.
I mean this is the guy who once suggested political leaders who ignore the “science” behind climate change be thrown into prison!
It makes you wonder what else is in Suzuki’s green agenda.
Maybe he wants to set up a House of Unenvironmental Activities Committee to investigate and jail eco-criminals: “Are you or have you ever been a climate change denier”?
But the real problem I have with Suzuki is his take on economics.
Believe it or not, for Suzuki the real problem with our world isn’t poverty or famine or the deluge of reality TV programs. Nope. For Suzuki the real problem is economic growth!
Yep, that’s right. Suzuki thinks too much prosperity is a bad thing. In fact, he once called our efforts to improve our economic condition “suicidal.”
So in the name of saving the planet he wants to stop economic growth, which also means he wants society to get poorer and our standard of living to fall.
It doesn’t matter to Suzuki that our economic and technological gains over the past few centuries have actually made our environment cleaner and healthier.
All that matters is his almost mystical need to stop climate change, even if that’s an impossible task.
And this perhaps is why Suzuki is endorsing McGuinty. It actually has nothing to do with those giant wind-turbines ( McGuinty’s Mechanical Monsters) which blight the rural landscape.
Suzuki simply realizes that McGuinty is to Ontario’s economy what Arnold Schwarzenegger is to wedding vows.
And by that I mean McGuinty’s policies of high taxes, excessive regulation and massive deficits will ultimately cripple Ontario’s economy.
This will increase Ontario’s poverty and unemployment and economic misery, but on the green bright side it will also result in a lessening of industrial activity which might slightly reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions.
This is the future Suzuki is applauding.
Of course, the Guru of Global Warming won’t truly be happy until the entire world economy is driven back to the Stone Age, but heck every little step backwards helps.
(Gerry Nicholls is editor of Freedom Forum)
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The CRA should “AGAIN” investigate his charitable status…….
Did Suzuki ever consider nuclear? Once all available land for wind turbines is used up, then what?
Yours is a ‘clever’ article in that it takes out of context various things Susuki has said regarding the threats posed by climate change. It also chooses to ignore the realities of climate change as attested to by almost all credible climate experts; this excludes, of course, the non-specialists who are paid for by business interests to sow doubt.
The business mentality, which you represent, chooses to ignore the long-term implications of greenhouse gas buildup in favour of short-term profit, and yet it is the very economy upon which they rely upon for profit that will have to pay the extraordinarily heavy costs that climate change will exact, costs which are already becoming due with the increasingly volatile weather the world is now experiencing.
Burying your head in the sand and trying to maintain the status quo only means that those costs are going to get progressively higher.