Green Party Leader Elizabeth May joins writer George Monbiot to argue in favour of action on climate change in a debate Dec. 1, 2009, in Toronto with author Bjorn Lomborg and former British chancellor Lord Nigel Lawson.
LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAROTTAWA–He has likened flying across the Atlantic Ocean to child abuse, equating their impact on human life.
But a thousand kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions spewed into the atmosphere by a jumbo jet is a pittance compared to the damage Canada is set to do at next week's global climate change summit in Copenhagen, says famed British muckraker George Monbiot.
No one person can convince the Conservative government to change its climate course, accept stronger emissions reduction targets and crack down on Alberta's oil sands. Three opposition parties with a majority of MPs in the House of Commons have tried and failed repeatedly to do so for the last four years.
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