Gobble, Gobble

Thanksgiving Day and American readers of NP are no doubt decidely not huddled around the television and/or the internet waiting for the latest breaking news filling the world. So, when nobody is watching, what better day to drop a turkey:

There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada.

No doubt as well that this ends the year on a sour note for all involved (the poll is listed as commissioned by the Earthwatch Institute). Six to eight months ago there was undoubtedly great hope. Ideas were pitched, proposals were written, funding obtained, meetings held, powerpoints prepared, urgent emails exchanged, questions worked, polling firms contacted, contracts signed, PR strategy created, and joy all around.

Then those bloody proles got involved and ruined everything with their so-called "answers". No screaming headlines in the Guardian, no prominent mention in a Monbiot piece, no banner headlines, no doom and even less gloom. Just a tattered unread press release left on the sidewalk.

Shudder, what will the donors think....