Last Week, Climate Change Was Bad. This Week, Climate Change Is Good.

Last week, Canadians heard all three levels of government and the media declare almost unanimously that human-induced climate change was a bad thing. In fact, governments and political parties competed with one another to demonstrate who was the greenest. However, this week, Canadians are hearing these people virtually say that climate change is a good thing.

How is that?

Well, Statistics Canada announced this week that Canada's population had increased by 5.4% since 2001. If, as we generally are told, an increased population means more pollution---especially in a cold northern climate where heating living spaces is essential---then increasing Canada's population means increasing its share of human-induced climate change.

The absurdity in this whole situation is that a number of politicians and others-- who were last week falling over one another to be classified as green---are actually gloating over the fact that Canada has had the highest population growth rate among all the G-8 countries. It is being implied that this is something that all Canadians should be proud of.

So let's slow down a minute and think.

When some officials in Hong Kong and other Chinese cities were saying not long ago that their populations would decline, and that they would have to take measures such as increasing the birth rate, many people outside of China reacted with horror. What was the most over-populated country in the world talking about? What earthly sense did it make to add more people to China's population when it was already racing down the road to environmental suicide? To add to the absurdity, in the recently-proclaimed Asian Year of the Pig, many Chinese have been talking about a probable baby boom because babies born in this year will supposedly experience prosperity!!