Good points about Canada being unsustainable as it is structured right now. For those same reasons you listed, many of the attacks on Al Gore are bunk, too. In this ‘game’ we’ve set up, the only way to spread the message is to spread the money.

The University of Tokyo did do a sustainable summit. In every way possible their conference was sustainable, because that was the goal of their summit. Ours was not. Regina wanted more to actually have a successful summit, a summit where the world could get together and *start* solving it’s problems, rather than having the obviously incorrect belief that we could solve everything at once here in regina, without changing anything about the way the world works.

While I do think that the Regina WSC-SD committee went a little overboard in its opulence, there’s a major difference; the people who went on the limo ride were people who would never get a chance to do so otherwise. We in the western world often do get that chance, even if only once in our lives. There were people who had never even seen an airplane at the conference; being from a western country and saying that they should not even have the opportunity to ride a limo is somewhat hypocritical.

And I wouldn’t be all smug about hybrid cabs(assuming we even have them in the city, I was not aware that we did).

Face it; almost everything about regina is unsustainable. Having a conference where people fly to is unsustainable. But without getting together to knock our heads together, there is no way out, and no way of helping everyone move together out of this rut we’ve gotten ourselves into.