What an embarassment
Dana at the Galloping Beaver has a good post illustrating how our "Environment" Minister acted like a good little minion of the Bush White House to obstruct as much progress as possible at Bali, and CathiefromCanada sums up his "leadership" after the reluctant acceptance of the deal. I just thought it would be nice to add this little snippet of just how crappy our environmental record and policies really are. We're getting our ass kicked by Mexico, not to mention just about everyone else.
Europe is known as a champion of combating climate change. But a developing country famous for its capital's polluted air is also a surprising front-runner: Mexico.
Mexico ranked fourth on the Climate-Change Performance Index, which scores countries on their greenhouse-gas emissions and policy. The policy group Germanwatch released the report this week during the U.N. climate-change conference in Bali. Only Sweden, Germany and Iceland outscored Mexico, with its 110 million people. The United States ranked 55th out of 56 countries, ahead only of Saudi Arabia.
Canada ranks a pitiful 53rd, with Australia filling the gap between us and the US. India and China, who the obstructionists like to claim are the bigger problems facing the world, rank 5th and 40th respectively.
Canadians should be hanging their heads in shame.
