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If you’ve read Orwell’s 1984 you know the importance of words - if you don’t have a word for something you can’t think or communicate about it.

Well, thanks to the work of an OCAD think tank, we’ve got a word for those who willfully damage the environment - depletist.

I can’t wait until spell check recognizes it.

In the meantime, here’s the link: http://tankofthinkers.wordpress.com/about/

Yes, it’s bad to kill things, especially just because you’re afraid of them, but they do deserve to die for the most part, don’t they?

Beijing has promised the air will be clean and clear for this summer’s Olympic Games.

Am I the only one that finds this a bit troubling?

If I lived in Beijing (a Beijinger?) I’d be pretty pissed that the country is willing to let me live in such terrible pollution for my entire life, bar the 2 weeks of the Olympics. China isn’t even debating the air quality. They’re admitting it’s crap.

Why isn’t the carrot of the Olympics being used to affect necessary change? Already, the world record holder in the marathon, Haile Gebrselassie, is withdrawing and a number of teams are training outside of China. But, the damage that Chinese industry is causing affects us all.

We are losing a significant opportunity to make a real difference. The Olympics can have a huge and lasting impact on a city and country in terms of exposure, infrastructure and tourism. Why hasn’t there been the caveat that China can have the Olympics as long as it meets two conditions: clean up your human rights record and clean up your industry.

For more than two weeks.

All week in Toronto they’ve been forecasting 20cm+ for Friday and now that it’s Friday and the snow is hitting, why are some people still unprepared?

If you don’t have the intelligence to put snow tires on your car when winter hits I guess I shouldn’t expect you will magically grow the brains required to keep your all-season tired car in the garage in the face of a major snowstorm. But really, is that too much to ask of your fellow driver?

I already think that our driving tests are far too easy and that our ‘training’ programs are more or less a joke, but if we were to revamp them, perhaps we could add a basic IQ test.

Woke up this morning after 3 hours sleep with the sudden need to go to the hospital. Knowing I’d be there for a number of hours I packed a book, a couple of magazines and a bottle of water.

Didn’t think I’d be there long enough to get hungry, but after the 4th hour of waiting, it did set in.

Not wanting to leave Emergency to go to the cafeteria, I went over to the vending machine at the other end of the waiting room. 3 rows of chocolate bars and chips. The only ‘healthy’ thing to eat was a packet of Excel gum.

I stuck with water.