Good Intentions: the Sugar-Coating of the Masses

This recent poll I saw via CTV might look good at first glance t some but it shouldn't really mean anything. It throws around a bunch of numbers talking about what some people are "willing" to do for the environment but that's pretty much it. No talk at all, with maybe one exception, about what real people are actually doing.

I guess knowing that people actually want to be more environmentally conscious should be noteworthy. The problem is that for far too many of us, it's all talk and not much else. It's kind of like Kyoto with a lot of fluff to make you feel good but when it comes down to it, you haven't really done anything.

Canadians need to wake up and start taking responsibility for their own actions. If we want to whine and complain about the apparent shortcomings in government policy, we'd better be more than just willing to make some needed changes in our own lives. If we want to make any meaningful impact on the environment, we have start making changes in our own lifestyles.

Perhaps what's more of an "inconvenient truth" is that too many of us just don't care enough yet.