Amen, and this includes Westmount and the other municipalities on the island. As long as we try to keep up this unsustainable lifestyle with token recognition of where our wealth comes from (the Earth), this charade will continue. No amount of switching to “alternative” fuels or replacing incandescent light bulbs for CFC bulbs will solve the problem. It’s more structural than that.

For the record, I will head to the summit on Westmount, for this hour, to see some stars, if that’s possible.

Source: Montreal Gazette

The city of Montreal will be an enthusiastic participant in Earth Hour this evening. Officials will switch off the lights at city hall and a few other municipal buildings, and the cross on Mount Royal will go dark for one hour beginning at 8:30.

But what is Montreal doing during all the other 364 days and 23 hours of the year to try to halt the planet’s quick march toward catastrophic climate change?

“Earth Hour is a really important project as an awareness tool and I can only congratulate the city for joining in,” said André Porlier of the Conseil régionale de l’environnement de Montréal, a coalition of local environment groups.

“But is Montreal doing enough to reduce greenhouse gases? Not at all, in my opinion.”