Ask And You Shall Receive Seems To Sum Up My Day Yesterday

Yesterday was weird, not just for the fact for the first time in the past three years not attending the UNFCCC negotiations which are taking place in Cancun, Mexico but mostly for getting into two multi-Tweet arguments. First with an contributor to the @NationalPost articles which say hey we don’t need action on climate change and the second was with an employee of a green washing company based in Calgary who keeps on trying to defend @OilGasCanada when Canadian Oil industry compare tar sands to house hold food products like peanut butter and the toxic bi-product sludge to yogurt.

These Twitter exchanges happen every now and them but to correct someone who contributes to a national newspaper was certainly the icing on the cake when you telling them to do a little bit more research before they start spreading lies to discredit things. (In this case it was @FossilOfTheDay and who runs it) I continued on with the day thinking that was some good victories for the day.

Since I rarely expect any other sort of engagement through Twitter aside from keeping up with what friends are doing, chatting back and forth with many of the people who I have meet around the world that I don’t get to talk to on a daily basis in person (aside the above mentioned fight even now and then). Yesterday I sent a Tweet to @MargaretAtwood who is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist (and probably one of Canada most amazing authors) not expecting her to share it due to her busy schedule but she did share it, and share it to her large audience on Twitter of 104,643 Followers.

With the excitement of such a well known Canadian actually listening to what I had said on Twitter this morning I though ‘Hey Why Not’ and send off a message to the Prime Minister of Canada, yes right to @PMHarper himself.  While I always am chatting back and forth with @PMOHarper out of the many messages I have sent to the real Prime Minister I have yet to get one reply. I am starting to think that he actually is the fake.

While I don’t expect to have Mr. Harper to Re-Tweet my message to him (although others already have), I do think that if enough other Canadian started to voice their concerns over how badly our international image is being TARnished with the current governments actions to protect our domestic Tar Sands industry over the safe future of the human population that at some point the PM would have get out of bed for once and start to actually do the needed work that is at hand.

Watch Stephen Harper & Tony Clement in Bed With Big Oil

 

To those Canadian who are listening and working on real solutions to the climate change crisis I want to say “Thank You”

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