Where are we going?

"Going Green" seems to be the issue-du-jour across North America, spearheaded by those people we rely on to tell us what to care about.......celebrities in Hollywood.

I mean, really, did I fall asleep last month and just wake up? Last time I checked, children are dying of hunger, people are living on the streets in every city in the world, there are more than 30 armed conflicts occuring worldwide, a litre of gas is more expensive than a cup of coffee, people wait months for an X-ray, students till pay too much for an education, etc......

And yet whats the issue? Environmentalism. Don't get me wrong, I love Mother Earth and I feel her pain. But the pain of my neighbour is more important to me.

And you want to know the worst thing about this neo-Green movement? The public is eating it up!!! People who don't recycle and people who don't even know what global warming is are now lining up to throw the Conservatives out of power because David Suzuki says so!?!? Ridiculous.

Winston Churchill said it best......The best argument against democracy is spending 5 minutes talking to the average voter.

The fact of the matter is that people are either stupid, naive or ignorant to a degree. And the celebrities pushing the Green agenda are banking on this, as are our Canadian politicians. When did the environment become the primary issue, the reason to elect an official?

Our present age of technology, globalism, the internet......this will be our collective undoing. There are so many important things to discuss, so many more important measures that our politicians need to take....and yet, our ignorance supercedes what's best for us, and, as we've made our bed, we will have to sleep in it.

And people wonder why the world laughs at us.....