Toronto Is Turning Green.......

......hopefully this will cover the blood red.

John Oakley: Toronto City Hall's misguided climate crusaders

Posted: May 25, 2008, 4:40 PM by Yoni Goldstein
Filed under: John Oakley

Never missing a beat to cast themselves as conscientious stewards of the environment, the climate crusaders at Toronto City Hall are proposing ways the city can address global warming in the upcoming budget. But even those behind the obvious ideas of planting trees and refitting the city’s fleet to be more fuel efficient seem to recognize the limited impact from what they can do.

So instead, they’re proposing strategies to adapt to climate change. For something as seemingly serious as global warming, it’s hard to take some of these proposals seriously: For citizens, they suggest you have a cool place to go during heat waves. Heed severe weather and smog warnings. And, oh yeah, buy locally grown food. typically obvious motherhood stuff.

Never mind that buying local may not always be the most cost-efficient or energy-conscious way of sourcing food, the point is the progressive thinkers at City Hall feel good about themselves for being on the vanguard of fighting climate change. Now, if they were really sincere about wanting to curb harmful gas, they’d cut their own ranks in half. That would relieve the taxpayer of 22 unnecessary carbon footprints.

John Oakley can be heard from 5:45 a.m.-10 a.m. EST Monday to Friday on AM 640 Toronto Radio. His Facebook page can be found here.