Who knows if my man will get in. Ill have to tuck into my news feeds here to see how the election is going. Regardless it is great to see someone who people respect so much talking sense about the earth, wherever he ends up.

I am not happy with a few of the ideas or ideals behind his thinking.

He talks about the threat of global warming as though it is the main global impetus for what needs to be done. Too many people do. It is the most immediate no doubt. But I would prefer if people were inspired by solid values rather than fear. Fear works. No doubt about it. And if the threat is real in any situation people will get to work and do what has to be done.

But the argument gets bogged down in the whole global warming debate, something that unfortunately is taking centre stage in the journey that needs to be made. People get bogged down in the proving and disproving of facts about rising temperatures and the ’snows of Mount Kilimanjaro’. It’s like listening (while smoking 40 cigarettes a day) to both sides of a debate on whether cigarettes will in fact most definitely and absolutely kill you in the end. The simple fact is that they are not good for your body. If you respect your body, if you value your body and your health, you should quit.

We need to kill our addiction to practices that disrespect the earth because we were borne from the earth, we value the earth, and we should live our daily lives in respect of it. We just want to get this problem out of the way and move on; breathe easy. To not do this is a loss to ourselves. I also believe that the process would be a much speedier one world wide if this were the case; if these values were in place.

Fingers crossed that this man takes up residence on Pennsylvania Avenue before the snow falls.