Environment, to do or not to do.

These two links survey on attitudes to the environment are predictable but none the less disappointing.
It’s the old axiom of ‘the more ya gets the more ya wants’.

I’d like to see a similar survey done in Labrador, be interesting to find out for sure what attitudes aboriginal people and other Labradorians have on these global issues. I have my suspicions that they would be similar to the city/urban/near urban survey, but I could be wrong.

I know some people up here are aware of our habits having a negative effect, but not many are willing to ‘do different things’ for fear of what other people might say. As one small example; Fran uses a cloth bag and I use a back pack for shopping, we are constantly getting comments, or I am, about the back pack. We are always rejecting plastic bags at the stores, and we take every opportunity to demean the plastic bag culture. It is getting through, but as mention before people need to get a grip and bugger the negative comments.

There is also a reluctance to buy CFB’s here because of the high initial costs, plus the stores do not carry many of them. But this may have to change soon; a story on CBC this morning indicated that the Federal Government is looking at putting a ban on incandescent bulbs, following the Ontario Government move. Goes to prove you have to legislate to get a strong message across, tough love never did a lot of harm to any one. Lets get to the tare sands and other major polluters.

It has long been obvious to me and others that to do nothing, or go slow on correcting mans impact on our earth, will only exacerbate the problem, and cost way more in lives and dollars.