To the Editor:
Standing in the bank line up the other day all of us pleased that (after taxes and home repairs and environmental fees) we have anything to deposit or withdraw.
Then someone walked in and "raised a big stink"! We all turned around to see what the "fresh odor" was about. He must have stepped in some Dog poop and he was cussing about how "WE" all stink! He probably did the same at McDonald's lineup and Safeway. Everyone stank "except him" and he had the nerve of telling us that it was "our footprint."
I thought this is a perfect example of the environmentalist guru's. We are all minding our own business and they raise a big stink about us when it's the environmentalists who have the global footprint crap, so I turn around finally, and say - It's You Buddy!
You're the one who wasted fuel to Copenhagen - we didn't! David Suzuki - you're the one who went to Churchill Manitoba to check on the Polar Bears you could have text messaged my friend Walter - a life long expert. You're the one with the global footprint! And Al Gore - you really "stink" flying your private jet around the world to tell "us" to stop using fuel.
And I didn't travel to the Arctic on a belching aging cruise ship - to see ice melt. Why don't you lift "your foot" - and smell the roses?
Michael Moore flies coast to coast on his own jet stream to tell me to vote for an environmentalist anti Bush. Our local Abbotsford environmentalist councilor flew to the east coast to protest a big corporation's footprint. She could have wiped her global footprint clean by using "gotomeeting.com"
And you environmentalists stop mining in BC and the company moves to Chile where there are fewer rules and more foot print. Go ahead, step in it again!
And how many professors are on the dole with environmental grants and studies so that they can "travel" to Iceland, Greenland, the Arctic and to conferences and how many trees have to be cut down for newsprint to "tell us" that the world is cooling (1972) warming (1992) climate change 2010. WE don't cut down trees for "that." YOU have the crap on "your" global footprint.
So I say lift both your feet you don't have a leg to stand on dog on it!
Don Warkentin, Mission, BC.
