Doing what we can

It can be very hard to bring myself to mention climate change after days and weeks of windchill and wearing two pairs of pants, just to be warm enough to walk to the bus stop. Winterpeg isn't just a clever nickname. I heard a rumour (okay, read it in her blog) that my cousin saw An Inconvenient Truth. She blogged about about some of the ways she is doing her part to minimize her environmental impact, as it were. She neglected to mention one of the most important things she is doing: talking about it.

Nobody is eco-perfect. My fiancé owns a mini-van, and we like to take road trips. I buy bananas, despite my guilt about how far away they are grown, because they are so cheap and convenient. And sometimes, I let the water run while I'm brushing my teeth because it's just easier. But when I read about what other people are doing, and talk to people about what they could or should be doing, I am encouraged to do my part. It's easy to get discouraged, due to the largeness of the issues at hand (as that movie undoubtedly pointed out), but everybody just has to do what they can, and keep talking about it. Look how we're scaring the Harper... someone who has been quoted as calling the Kyoto accord a money-sucking socialist scheme.