Please be kind, if you comment on this text, do not break open doors.
Don’t waste my time telling me that the environmental crisis is real and that we must act.
I know it. I repeat: I KNOW. Got it.
Mad
My problem is elsewhere.
It is in the frequent tone of environmental discourse.
First, it’s amazing how many people call themselves “experts”.
Are forest fires caused by global warming?
We don’t know for sure, because establishing a causal link from a single event is problematic.
- Listen to the column of Joseph Facal, columnist for the Journal de Montréal & the Journal de Québec at the microphone of Richard Martineau via QUB-radio :
What we do know is that the planet is warming and that once exceptional events… will become less and less so.
Secondly, it’s crazy how environmental discourse is constructed and conveyed by people who live in big cities and act like everyone else does.
You only have to leave Montreal to realize that our distances and the importance of natural resources in our economy mean that we are not on the eve of being able to do without heavy vehicles.
A Ford F-150 is more justified in Sept-Îles than in Outremont.
Thirdly, it’s amazing how a certain environmental discourse, draping itself in the importance of its cause, cavalierly treats individual freedoms: that of traveling, that of having children, that of visiting a museum without fearing that a chef- work is vandalized by a fanatical fool, etc.
Fourth, it’s crazy how hard it is for environmental boots to keep up with environmental boots.
Take the base voter.
I have no doubt – I repeat for those who suffer from attention deficit – that the cause is important, but there is not 5% of voters whose number one priority when they enter the polling booth to vote.
When they answer a survey, they know the answer that is considered good to give. When they vote, it will be taxes, hospitals, the head of the chief, etc.
Take those who govern us.
The CAQ cares little about the environment and takes pride of place. Trudeau appoints an environmentalist minister and uses him to justify as many oil projects as Stephen Harper.
Take our young, great environmental champions.
At the university, the parking lots are full, the cafeteria is a cathedral in homage to polystyrene, and the smartphones, as essential as a lung and a kidney, are made of plastic.
- Listen to the column of Joseph Facal, columnist for the Journal de Montréal & the Journal de Québec at the microphone of Richard Martineau via QUB-radio :
Demonstrations?
Fifth, the degree of selective outrage is crazy.
China alone is responsible for 33% of the world’s CO2 emissions.
It’s weird, I don’t see many people demonstrating in front of the Chinese consulates.
Based on population, the three worst polluters in the world are Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
But they are Muslims and export oil, two reasons to treat them with white gloves.
Ah, but the chorus frog or the deer of Longueuil, so there…