KYOTO the plan that can!...I think?

Part of me hopes for the Kyoto protocol to work and for the immediate adequate steps to be taken to reduce the dangerous levels of emissions being pumped into our atmosphere every year. The air pollutants being continually emitted are exhausting the health of our generation and will continue to diminish the health of future generations. The negative side effects of air pollutants are well known and contribute to many preventable illnesses.

The impacts of this pollution have stretched globally and effect every human being on the planet. Yet the largest emitters and those that stand to profit the most from the continued emissions from their respective economies have banned together and formed the Asia-Pacific Partnership. The sly talk of politicians using divergence and overly abstract language to misconstrue the current state the environment is unforgivable.

The video below is a compilation of pictures and facts about air pollution which will hopefully demonstrate the severity of the situation.



The Prime Minister has conceded that the Kyoto plan, although well intentioned, was not realistic and that Canada would join the Asia Pacific bandits in order to sway them into the next summit when Kyoto expires. I believe that short term progress towards reduction in pollution is impossible. Kyoto had realistic outlooks on future reductions in emissions from all countries. Look at it this way, is it really realistic to assume that one of the worlds largest emitters (the U.S.) who cant even take a small economic blow for Universal Health care (and by blow I mean make the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies that line their pockets mad) for the betterment of the American people to suddenly employ billions of dollars worth of sanctions on emissions? I think not...the same goes for China, Australia and the rest of the Asia Pacific group.

Joke of the week:

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

-- Vice President Al Gore (excerpt from thttp://www.ahajokes.com/gb001.html)

Fashion in the context of communication is nothing but another symbol. A symbol representing what the current trends and societal norms of clothing are. The only cliché is that anyone cares. These pressures portrayed in the media lead to many young people doing incredibly stupid things such as inheriting eating disorder in order to achieve these norms. It also creates a social strata of 'haves' and 'have-nots'.

I found fashion, as a form of communication, to have profound impacts on how we live our lives. It dictates the way we; eat, workout, socialize, perceive ourselves and others etc. It is almost shown to be just as, if not equally as, important as the impacts explained by Harold Innis in 'Minerva's Owl'. As he explains the impact of the written form of communications on; law, oral traditions, politics, etc. On the other hand the two readings display a nice contrast of both communication forms' (both verbal and non-verbal) impacts on the evolution of man kind.

hmmm i forgot to say hello world sooo....'hello world'