This year's G8 summit in Japan provided an excellent opportunity to focus on the great environmental challenges which threaten our world today: climate change, food prices, and unsustainable energy creation and prices. Instead, Stephen Harper has led a charge among G8 leaders to condemn the recent election in Zimbabwe.
Although I do not disagree that the election was concerning and troubling, this distraction has allowed the agenda to be hijacked away from environmental issues which will harm citizens from all countries and continents. Why could they not have led off with climate change and then talked about Mugabe at a late stage of the conference? I am afraid that climate change will be forgotten in media coverage of the summit.
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