The former Speaker of the House, Tip O’Neil said it best, “All politics is local.”  Politicians grab onto an idea that will divert the minds of their electorate and run with it.  Saving the planet from global climate change is a lot ‘easier’ than figuring out a way to get the garbage picked up.  For all the halleluiahs sung at Queen’s Park about the greening of Ontario the sad truth is that the billions squandered to date have had virtually no impact on the climate.  The obvious problem is that there are now 7.2 billion humans on the earth. That’s three times more than when I was born.  Virtually every geopolitical problem that surfaces can be traced back to this fact. Sadly  I'm not sure that there is any solution.