More telltale clues of impending environmental problems
Sometimes we have to dig a little deeper to find the cause and effect relationship between certain news stories. Today, two that have my attention involve the Nobel Peace Prize and hockey sticks. The link may appear tenuous, but I believe the government may want to add this to their research plans.
The first story is that Mr. Gore is sharing a lovely gold medal (environmental disaster as far as material choice) and some cash that can be used to purchase carbon-offset credits. As a man that has invented the Internet, won an Oscar and now caught the interest (and anger) of politicians around our world for his efforts to make things “greener”, I salute him.
The second story, less dramatic in world terms, but important to Canadians, is that Sher-Wood is getting out of the wooden hockey stick business. I’ve used their product, back in my time as a roadhockey star; well-made, good price (I think: other people bought the sticks and then loaned them to me, evening after evening, as we defended the honour of our favourite teams on the flat patch behind the Dominion store by the loading dock). Anyhow, a lot of goals were scored using the Sherwood product, and a curved blade is not a necessity, in spite of what Mr. Howe and Mr. Hull and Mr. Mahovlich might have thought.
Now, this is a suspicion. More research is needed (hint, hint). Could the decline in the sales of wooden hockey sticks be linked to global warming? We don’t have the accumulations of snow that permit cutting goalposts out of the piles, and my own kids have not been big aficionados of “the game”. Could this be the real signal that times have changed, bigger even then grizzlies in the far north and polar bears doing the open water crawl?
Note to self; buy a hockey stick for the Museum of Canadian Artifacts.
