Canadians rank near bottom of 'green' survey

Environmental | 206710 hits | May 13 11:17 am | Posted by: Hyack

Once again, Canadians rank almost at the bottom of the National Geographic Society's annual survey on consumer behaviors that impact the environment.

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by stemmer
Wed May 13, 2009 6:42 pm
No wonder Liz May never wins a seat... We Canadians are not buying into her lies, deceit and chicanery....!!!!!

Our perpetual love affair with large cars and SUVs and resistance to use public transit also pulled our ranking down. Canadians ranked among the lowest in public transit use, with just 22 per cent saying they use it at least once a week.

"Car and truck ownership is above the 17-country average (86 per cent compared with 74 per cent) and, of those who drive, Canadians are among the most likely to drive large vehicles," the survey found.

"Canadians have the third highest rate of driving alone most days (56 per cent)."
by Anonymous
Wed May 13, 2009 6:52 pm
Canada's a big place,work isnt allways close to home and theres no such thing as public transit within 100 miles of me or most folks who dont live in the city because its impractical.I wonder if they took that into account when they did the poll?
Consumers in developing countries, in contrast, tend to live closer to work and use more environmentally friendly transportation, such as walking, cycling, and public transportation.
by danimal
Wed May 13, 2009 6:59 pm
As a relatively environmentally friendly Canadian, this is embarrassing!
by N_Fiddledog
Wed May 13, 2009 7:00 pm
It doesn't really matter how this survey was done, if these were the results...

Brazilians and Indians tied for the highest Greendex score for environmentally sustainable consumption, at 60 points each. U.S. consumers had the lowest score at 44.9, with Canadians second-worst at 48.5.

it's just another in a lengthening list of preposterous, National Geographic bullshit.

Brazil, and India, as environmental saviours??? I mean c'mon. Seriously...give us a break.
by Anonymous
Wed May 13, 2009 7:07 pm
"N_Fiddledog" said
It doesn't really matter how this survey was done, if these were the results...

Brazilians and Indians tied for the highest Greendex score for environmentally sustainable consumption, at 60 points each. U.S. consumers had the lowest score at 44.9, with Canadians second-worst at 48.5.

it's just another in a lengthening list of preposterous, National Geographic bullshit.

Brazil, and India, as environmental saviours??? I mean c'mon. Seriously...give us a break.

I'll put our enviro laws,rules and regs up against any of those countries that fared above us at any time and I have a knapsack with about 50 pounds worth of regs. sitting in my truck just for Alberta.
We are one of the most heavily regulated when it comes to the environment,unless your a farmer.
by martin14
Wed May 13, 2009 8:19 pm
"N_Fiddledog" said
It doesn't really matter how this survey was done, if these were the results...

Brazilians and Indians tied for the highest Greendex score for environmentally sustainable consumption, at 60 points each. U.S. consumers had the lowest score at 44.9, with Canadians second-worst at 48.5.

it's just another in a lengthening list of preposterous, National Geographic bullshit.

Brazil, and India, as environmental saviours??? I mean c'mon. Seriously...give us a break.

True enough Dog, the reason they are so 'green' is cause their consumption is so
low.
Anyone want to live like that to be as 'green' as them ??

Didnt think so..
by Anonymous
Wed May 13, 2009 8:22 pm
If I had to bike to work it would take me anywhere from a week to a summer,depending on which job I was at.

Aint many roads in the arctic,the longest is 100 kliks so everyone has to fly hence the bigger footprint.
And Baker lake went from 24 citizens to allmost 5000 now so small price to pay to have Canadians in the extreme north,same with Rankin inlet and gjoe haven,about the same amount of people there and no roads period.
by Choban
Wed May 13, 2009 8:31 pm
How come no one ever surveys or studies what is being done to be environmentally friendly? All we ever hear about is who is worse than who. Kinda makes me not want to give a shit due to the negatvity from the start
by Anonymous
Wed May 13, 2009 8:50 pm
"Choban" said
How come no one ever surveys or studies what is being done to be environmentally friendly? All we ever hear about is who is worse than who. Kinda makes me not want to give a shit due to the negatvity from the start

Like ive said many times,these kind of fearmongering story's only deflect from the environmental issues we can do something about,like carbon sequestering,clean wind energy and etc.

Why not post topics about that?
Drowning polar bears,melting ice sheets,it gets lame after awhile and smacks of what the tabloids would use to sell papers.
After awhile the enviro fear mongering will work,peeps will take tham as serious as those that claim George Bush planned 9/11 and shot missiles into the pentagon.
by Anonymous
Wed May 13, 2009 8:55 pm
Me and Yogi are going to research global warming,as soon as we can get the grant and 4 assistants to help out on the tropical islands we will have to research because I heard they have been warming up since january and this should be confirmed in the name of global cooling or warming.
by Bodah
Wed May 13, 2009 9:06 pm
"N_Fiddledog" said
It doesn't really matter how this survey was done, if these were the results...

Brazilians and Indians tied for the highest Greendex score for environmentally sustainable consumption, at 60 points each. U.S. consumers had the lowest score at 44.9, with Canadians second-worst at 48.5.

it's just another in a lengthening list of preposterous, National Geographic bullshit.

Brazil, and India, as environmental saviours??? I mean c'mon. Seriously...give us a break.

This is their idea of what they expect us to do ....

I give the green machine industry a 10 for peserverence in trying to strip of us of our cash. Nice try suckers.
by N_Fiddledog
Wed May 13, 2009 11:04 pm
OK, this is slightly OT, but speaking of Brazil, and because I find this fascinating...

In a report published in the 6 March 2009 issue of Science, Oliver L. Phillips of the UK's University of Leeds and his 65 co-authors write that "old growth forests in Amazonia ... through photosynthesis and respiration ... process 18 petagrams [18 x 1015 grams] of carbon annually," which they say is "more than twice the rate of anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions." They also state that over the past quarter-century of intensive region-wide measurements, the productivity of the Amazon rainforest -- even in its extreme old age -- has been found to be "increasing with time," in support of which statement they cite the comprehensive observational studies of Phillips et al. (1998), Nemani et al. (2003), Baker et al. (2004), Lewis et al. (2004) and Ichii et al. (2005)

http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3416

Mine is an untrained eye, but this is what I think I'm reading.

The bio-mass of the existing Amazonian rain forest is growing, and has been exponentially since about 1990 (they have a graph at the site). Later in the article they suggest the reason for the biomass increase is more CO2 in the air. The Amazonian rain forest loves CO2. It's a delectable rain forest treat.

That existing rain forest is still enough to gobble up "more than twice the rate of anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions".

So I conclude if you were really worried about the amount of CO2 man is putting into the air, all you'd have to do would be reclaim all that land cut away from the amazonian rain forest to create biofuel for the environmentalists, and there you go. Anthropogenic CO2 forced global warming problem solved. Providing, of course, you believe the fairy tale there was a problem to begin with.

OK, the National Geographic might get a little thinner, because they'd have less to whine about, but so what? Less paper. More trees gobbling up more yummy CO2, served up by their buddy man.
by martin14
Wed May 13, 2009 11:25 pm
"N_Fiddledog" said

OK, the National Geographic might get a little thinner, because they'd have less to whine about, but so what? Less paper. More trees gobbling up more yummy CO2, served up by their buddy man.

Hey, what about some more room for all those jungle tribes
and their clothing practises ??

Gotta keep NG going
by dino_bobba_renno
Thu May 14, 2009 12:18 am
Silly survey, what do they know *as he hops into his Canyonero and drives away to go the convience store 1/2 a block down the road*

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