Environmentalism

As I was driving around this morning I was listening to CJOB and they were talking about environmentalism. The host of the show was asking people if environmentalism is really the number one election issue in Canada today. Recently environmentalism in the polls was placed as the number one election issue in Canada putting health care in the number two spot. The host of the show raised an interesting point, that if the economy wasn't doing so well no one would be talking about the environment. I think he was right, and in that regard the environment probably isn't that number one election issue. But what I didn't like was that it seemed that he was saying that we shouldn't put as much emphasis on the environment because if things were different it wouldn't be the number one election issue. I think that at a time like this when the economy is doing well and people are generally happy, we need to take advantage and make progress on issues like the environment. There is no denying that it is an important issue and will only get more important in the future. The environment is also a big issue right now because the Liberals have made it an issue. A warm winter coupled with Stephane Dion's policies have made this a huge issue and if the winter was cold and Michael Ignatieff had won the Liberal leadership no one would be talking environment and I wouldn't have written this post.