One of the pressing issues of our lifetime is the rectification of environmental degradation wrought by human agency across the globe. Public opinion polls indicate people in Canada acknowledge the environment as a priority issue, yet the environment was not a key issue in the recent Federal Election.
The Liberals, Greens, and NDP, all put forward their respective environmental visions. But even the NDP, arguably the best among them, fell far from the mark. Of course the environmental solutions of all of the Parliamentary opposition parties are stuck in the same box of the capitalist free market; the same economic system that is responsible for the environmental crisis facing us today. The Harper Tories, meanwhile, continue to follow their unabashed anti-environment, pro-corporate agenda.
