Canada is gradually improving its ranking in environmental opinion polls, but we’re still subject to some derision, focusing on the Alberta Oilsands, which critics refer to as ‘tarsands that produce the world’s dirtiest oil.’
They may be right, but I think if we paid higher carbon taxes we could pay for whatever research it takes to clean up this energy source. And this would be far better than going to war over oil in the Middle East or using food to make biofuels.
In the meantime, I thought I’d present this
‘blot on the landscape’ as a ‘cleaned up’ semi-abstract design. As for making
sense of the rest of the overlaid haiku, Googling ‘climate change preparation’
will get you over a million results to read...