Stop Driving Your Car: Use it for a Petition
Streets are for People sponsored this anti-car petition on an actual car in Ontario.
We the undersigned do hereby demand that not one more dollar go to promote, support, or perpetuate car culture. We want bike lanes, public transit and a train system. We want our public space back. We want local food, clean air, sustainable industry, a liveable future for our children, and an end to oil wars. We want to dance in the street. We want a government that values life over money.
Over 4,000 people have signed the car.
Via: Spacing Toronto
Image: Peyton Chung
Power to the People! GM can’t stay open in Ontario because they won’t listen to the people and build an eco-car like the turbo bio-diesel/electric hybrid VW! Toyota and Honda do well here in Ontario because they produce and market what WE want, not what their ‘Oil Baron’ stock holders prescribe for the public. One day, when the USA is a smoldering, bankrupt pile of rusting rubble, they will stop their greed and averice long enough to ask Why is Canada so beautiful? We will answer ‘Ecologists’!
Second place I’ve seen this garbage – and it remains, garbage.
Wow Uncle B thanks for setting me straight. Climb back in your igloo and stfu… Ontario is the US’s trash dump.
Hazardous waste imports from large industrial countries into neighbouring economically strained ones have been happening for years.
For example between 1993 and 1998 United States exported 288,00 tonnes of toxic waste into Canada. The
imports include everything from dry-cleaning chemicals to electronic equipment laced with toxic sub-
stances. Despite promises of further change, Ontario still allows waste deemed too contaminated for US
landfill sites to come north for disposal.
Need more?
The Ontario Medical Association estimates that breathing
bad air kills about 1,800 people prematurely
each year in Toronto alone. A recently
released study suggests that per
2,000,000 people 1,000 city residents
die annually from smog-related illnesses
such as heart failure and pneumonia. As
many as 5,500 more are admitted to hospi-
tals.
Yea but we don’t buy GM!
Sales of Government Lands: During the reporting period from 2003-2007, the Ontario Realty Corporation continued to sell public lands without carrying out required environmental studies.
Many species in Ontario are heading toward extinction because of disruption of Ontario’s ecosystems and reluctance by the Ministry of Natural Resources to infringe on landowner rights.
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Hey! Thanks for all the great info. I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it). Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).
Yeah and to all those people who don’t have the opportunity to use public transit or bike, well they can just suck the eco-nazis off, right? These people can (pathetically) try, but the fact is, this world would not run without 90% of the things these people hate.
This international competition as to who holds the eco-friendly moral high ground is counter-productive. There is no advantage to pitting one country against another, quoting environmental tidbits, and declaring that one is more environmentally at fault than the other.
The environment, global warming, pollution, and all other aspects of conservation and ecology are a *global concern*. Smog doesn’t respect international borders.
Jingoistic and ethnocentric comments such as those comparing the future USA’s, “smoldering, bankrupt pile of rusting rubble,” to Canada’s beauty and magnificence are equally unproductive. We cannot use ideology here to maintain nationalistic arguments, and frankly I would not trust anybody who seems to want to see the US as a smoldering, bankrupt pile of rusting rubble to lead the world forth into an ecologically sustainable future. Respect for one another’s cultures, willingness to listen, and understanding of concerns and pre-existing hurt, not quibbling, will create an international alliance and sustain an environmental movement.
What the designers of this ‘petition’ did is an extremely commendable act. I’m proud as a North American that there are people out there standing up against big oil and the car companies for a safer, more accessible, and cleaner future, and I would love to see similar things disseminating into the United States like… now!
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