The depressing thing about the hoopla leading up to today's Canadian election call was the poll results. It's not just that the Tories, who continue to
score lowest on Climate Change policy, might be set to win a "majority" government. Or that despite all evidence to the contrary, "On climate change, 68 per cent of us think Harper's government is taking the right approach" (
CBC). The trouble is also at a deeper level: pollsters asked Canadians which party is best able to manage the economy and which party is better for the environment -- and
got two different answers!
Remember folks, the economy and the environment are really the
same issue:
- As the saying goes, "the economic system is a wholly owned subsidiary of the ecosystem".
- You cannot have a good economy on a wrecked planet.
- Any economic policy which destroys the ecosystem is bound to result in disaster.
So pollsters should ask, "
which party is best able to transform our economy so that it stops destroying the ecosystem on which it -- and we -- depend?" And Canadians should start thinking about it quickly, before it's too late.
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