Isn’t Christmas awful?

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Dec 24

RE: Reduce your environmental impact at Christmas. Op-ed by Susan Koswan. The Hamilton Spectator 5 Dec 24.

Susan Koswan writes, “Isn’t Christmas awful? It creates such a mess.” (though not in as few words as put here, but that is the inevitable conclusion.).

“Zero Waste Canada calculates that our waste jumps by 25 percent over the [Christmas] season.”

Who cares what totalitarian fanatics say? Zero Waste Canada: their name gives the absurd game away.

Koswan quotes the never-before-heard-of Columbia Climate School “production and use of household services were responsible for 60 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.”, which claim ought to embarrass those who look askance at Alberta’s oil and gas emissions.

“Packaging accounts for 45 percent of carbon emissions from e-commerce…that is responsible for 36.4 percent of total transport emissions.”

Susan Koswan did not check the math; she did not examine the assumptions behind any of these figures. She can’t verify the claims of these manifestly totalitarian, activist, extremist organizations; she can only urge them on you with that assuring smile of moral superiority.

You can be certain of one thing: 95 percent of social statistics likes these are completely made up.