Canada distinguished itself for poor performance again today by forcing the United Nations Secretariat to dismantle a tar sands display mounted by the Canadian Youth Climateย Coalition.
The display consisted of four roughly three-foot by two-foot tar sands photos, accompanied by a small amount of explanatory (and not very controversial) type. The pictures were tacked to a Climate Action Network booth in the main conference hall at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting inย Poznan.
In awarding Canada the (not-very) coveted Fossil, youth delegate Katherine Trajan sang the following, to the tune of โMy Heart Will Go On,โ perhaps appropriately from โTheย Titanic.โ
Objecting, obstructing
Hoping that the talks wonโt go on
We object to targets
Commitments, and funding
We wish that Kyoto were gone
Stop, no, we donโt want to go
To a world where our tar sands are banned
We love to burn fossil fuels
And weโll keep on emitting
Emitting till Harper is goneย
