Glimpse into the future of climate change apologies

 Posted by on 3 December 2009  Modern Life
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Stephen Harper was (I believe) the first sitting Prime Minister to offer an official Canadian apology, which he did last year to Canadian aboriginals, saying he was sorry for their cumulative experiences in residential schools.

Greenpeace thinks he’ll have to make another apology, in a decade or so. Here’s their take on it:

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From BoingBoing, which quotes ‘Darren‘:

Greenpeace is running a clever ad campaign in the Copenhagen airport in preparation for the Copenhagen climate negotiations that start on Dec. 7. They’re a series of ads featuring Photoshopped images of sad-looking world leaders, apologizing for not addressing climate change when they had the chance. Canada’s Prime Minister looks like the saddest hockey coach in the land.

I hope this billboard stares Stephen Harper right in the face. Greenpeace has also Obama, Merkel and Medvedev, among others that I didn’t recognize, in their slideshow.

Grant Hamilton

  • Colin

    Harper will never, never, ever apologize for something he himself did (or in this case, didn’t do).

    His ingrained vicious partisanship just won’t allow him to be big enough for it.

  • mungman

    Do they have ones of Micheal Mann, Phil Jones and Keith Briffa apologizing for faking data and bullying journals into not publishing dissenting data?