Keith

We cant entirely blame governments for their failure to clean up the planet, we are all to blame.

We all demand cheap energy and in order to satisfy our needs we turn a blind eye to how it is provided as long as it is cheap and readily available.

So if you want to find a green place to live stay put and start by cleaning up your own space.

Jingsamichty

Agree completely Keith.

Also, my particular bugbear is that nobody in Canada seems to drink water from the tap. Plastic bottle use - for WATER!!! - is one of the biggest environmental sins of the past 10-15 years. And nobody seems to care.

Keith

Ireland and the UK are top of the list for bowel gas.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top...countries.html

el_richo

BC is always covered in a cloud of smug all year round from what i see. Self polluting hypocrites

Steve_P

Me too.

I don't understand the phenomenal increase in the consumption of bottled water in the last ten to fifteen years. It just defies logic.

JonboyE

The whole of BC?

Incidentally, even exploration for oil and gas off the coast of northern BC is forbidden, even though it is a widely held belief there are substantial deposits there.

Big oil is trying to get the moratorium lifted. No luck for them so far.

Simon Legree

It's called slick marketing Steve.

Keith

Why should BC be any different? It will happen eventually as long as we continue to turn up at the gas pumps.

But then we can always depend on Alberta and the Tar Sands to fill your tank.

Alan2005

It won't last. The oil will be drilled eventually.

el_richo

From what i've seen, the smug cloud covers the entire province, with extra thickness over VI.

JonboyE

Next time I will try and read what you wrote, not what I thought you wrote.

Alan2005

To be fair some of that is left over from when U2 played Vancouver.

Novocastrian

I thought that was Moncton.

el_richo

Boner tends to leave his mark wherever he goes, so i read once.

mandymoochops

a poignant moment from their recent concert in Edmonton.

Bono, quietens the crowd, and then slowly and rythmically starts clapping.
about 30 seconds later, still clapping, he says "every time I clap my hands, a child in the third world dies"

Voice from the back

"Well stop f****g clapping then"