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http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/05/13/c...-and-crickets/

Even those of us who are most desperately concerned about the effects of climate change have accepted that nothing can happen here in Canada until after the election in 2015. Even then, though, a new government might not have a mandate to do anything too strenuous if its leaders have been muted in their talk about climate change while in opposition.

And if the Conservatives are reelected — which surely remains a possibility — very little will have been done to push them off their determined intransigence.

This week comes news that the Antarctic ice sheet is collapsing, which will raise sea levels by more than a metre and possibly closer to four metres. Imagine.

My father’s generation made terrible sacrifices to save the world from the Nazis and Imperial Japan. Mine won’t take a point or two cut in GDP to arrest climate change.

One day, my daughter’s generation will look back in anger as they contemplate their compromised lives. And they’ll be right to do so.