But if Canada is hindering progress, other nations are showing more enlightened leadership. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said before heading to Poland that nations must keep their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate change is so important that we cannot use aion account the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it,” he said. Eminent economist Sir Nicholas Stern has already told us that meeting the challenge of climate change could cost about one per cent of annual GDP but doing nothing will destroy the global economy. Seems there’s only one thing we can do, and it won’t cost $4.1 trillion.

As citizens, we can and must do everything possible to keep our finite world alive and healthy. Along with the small but important changes we are making in our own lives, we must also call on our leaders to stop aion kina downplaying the unequivocal science that tells us failing to quickly address the climate crisis will make the economic crisis seem like a minor blip in history. We could tell them where to put that $4.1 trillion!