Captain Green Caught Red Handed

Tom Brodbeck exposes a chink in David Suzuki’s environmental armour in today’s Winnipeg Sun. Apparently Captain Green is using a luxury tour bus (albeit diesel) to spread the environmental gospel.

Apparently there is a hierarchy in the environmental new world order. At the apex we have the Cadillac Escalade-driving Al Gore and the Luxo-bus-riding David Suzuki. The rest of us plebs are the ones that are expected to jam ourselves onto subways and spend hours waiting for buses.

I believe that we all should be concerned about global warming. Oil that took millions of years to produce is being consumed at much quicker rates. If the message is being spread by bourgeois environmentalists, however, responsible consumption becomes a tough sell.

Brodbeck also touches on Suzuki’s puzzling “carbon neutral” exercise in justifying use of his vehicular Taj Mahal. Apparently the environmental havoc being wreaked by a luxury coach can be negated by donating to green technologies. Can a murderer absolve themselves of guilt by donating to a family charity? Can a molester elude prosecution by donating to an orphanage?

WestJet flies planes on a regular schedule. If Suzuki and his entourage elected to fly on one of said planes, they would only marginally be adding to the fuel that is already being consumed. This could be rendered “carbon neutral” by staying in a hotel. The hotel is ALREADY consuming a fuel like natural gas to maintain room temperature. An extra 8 bodies in the hotel would lessen the work needed from the heating equipment. That would be TRUE carbon neutrality. Maybe even carbon negative…