HM PM Harper's more climate realist position , contrasted with the chicken little hysteria of other world leaders, including the premiers of Queec and Ontario. I like the title of this peace and the Kipling references.
Quite so. In contrast, Mr. Harper was himself never more eloquent than in the three days he spent in Copenhagen - when he said absolutely nothing. Surrounded by a madness of politicians (that is, by the fevered rhetoric of the leadership of 160 countries), tormented by the mendacity of environmentalists (that is, by the absurd naming of Canada, which produces less than 2 per cent of the world's carbon emissions, as Fossil Fuel Country of the Year), Mr. Harper kept his head, a remarkable performance that proved him again - however else he may be judged - an authentic leader.
Rudyard Kipling once described this kind of self-control in poetic detail. If you keep your head even as everyone else loses theirs, you prove yourself. If you trust your judgment even as everyone else doubts it, you prove yourself. If you wait without getting impatient, you prove yourself. If you restrain from making yourself "look too good," or making yourself "talk too wise," you prove yourself. Relentlessly hounded by all the usual howling mobs, Mr. Harper proved himself in all of these ways in Copenhagen.
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I totally agree 100%. The secret to our success is the wise and capable leader we have in the Right Honourable Mr. Harper.
Even if we emit less than 2 percent of the world's carbon emissions, we represent about 0.0046875% of the world's population. Is it right for 0.0046875% to emit 2%?
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