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Is it getting hot up there in Canada?

As if it weren’t enough that one of Canada’s most vocal eco-guys, David Suzuki, (awarded the Order of Canada medal, no less) is making the lecture circuit to preach that the world is on the brink of environmental meltdown. Now, according to a great blog by Terry O’Neill in The National Post Suzuki is calling for non-green politicians to be shipped to the big house: “Leaders who aren’t acting quickly enough to save the environment ‘should go to jail,’” O’Neill quotes Suzuki as saying to audiences all over Canada.

Jail? Hmmm.

Appealing as jailing politicians may sound to Americans, still in the throes of a messy election process, O’Neill says all the controversy is just wasting trees (that’s for newspaper readers—just switch to the web, guys).

But then O’Neill may go too far in the other direction.

He starts quoting Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, who has some harsh things to say about the environmental movement. O’Neill says that Klaus, “whose book Our Planet is Blue not Green will soon be translated into English, believes that environmental zealotry poses as great a threat to human freedom as did communism. “

Surely there’s some middle ground between apocalyptic visions of environmental doom and charges that money spent on environmental reform takes bread out of the mouths of the poor?

How can we ever get to REAL solutions unless we all start talking sense --not sensationalism?

Am I the only one tired of all this extremism -- on both sides? It's generating a lot of heat, with very little light.