I know that when you change your lights over to energy-efficient globes and ride your bicycle to work, it’s easy to feel as though everything around you is just a little greener. But the reality is that we must act fast, which means a top-down as well as a bottom-up approach. We urgently need to get the message to our political leaders that WE CARE, and we need to do it now.

Below is a short Climate Quiz provided by the David Suzuki Foundation. If you’re Canadian and find the answers to this to be a little surprising, then – on behalf of Seres and the David Suzuki Foundation – we are asking you to Take Action, and send a message to your Prime Minister that he can take to Copenhagen this December.

Canada’s Climate Quiz

Q. What country spews five times more global warming pollution per person than China and ten times more per person than India?

Q. What country invests six times less per person than the U.S. to build a clean-energy economy and clean-energy jobs?

Q. What country is one of the top 10 global warming polluters in the world, based on the average carbon footprint of its citizens?

Q. What country produces two to three times more global warming pollution per person than most European countries?

Q. What country produces less than one per cent of its energy from renewable sources like wind and solar power — employing just a few thousand people?

Answers: Canada Canada, Canada again, Canada and – you guessed it – Canada!

Take Action

All you need to do is write a personalized letter (each one represents 100 citizens!) and get it to Stephen Harper before 7 December. Postage is free, and we’ve even provided a template for you as a guideline. So please, get writing and help us to make these December negotiations really count!

Send it to:

Prime Minister Stephen Harper
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1A 0A6
(Letters to the House of Commons can be mailed postage-free!)

Send copies to:

Michael Ignatieff,  Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
Gilles Duceppe, Leader of the Bloc Québecois
Jack Layton, Leader of the New Democratic Party

(Same address as above.)

Let Us Know

If you do write a letter, we would love to hear about it. Please let us know by emailing info[at]projectseres[dot[org].