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“Ninety-five percent of government effort is to keep everything going as usual,” said Tim Sale, former health minister of Manitoba told me last Sept at a conference.

“Governments only act when they perceive there is a serious emergency. Climate change is not seen as an emergency,” said Sale.

An honest admission for a change. Many other retired politicians, including former federal Minister of the Environment, who listened in nodded their heads in agreement.

As a journalist Stephen has reported on environmental topics in Canada and internationally for 15 years.

Currently the North American environmental correspondent for the Inter Press Service news agency (IPS), based in Rome, Stephen's articles are published in 500+ newspapers, magazines and online news sites worldwide in up to 20 languages. He has also written commissioned articles for Maclean’s Magazine, The Toronto Star, UK-based New Scientist magazine, BBC Wildlife, and London Sunday Times, and the US-based Wired News, Audubon Magazine and Earth Island Journal.