I woke up this morning to a CBC reporter speaking with a representative of the World Wildlife Fund. It was too early and I was still not fully awake, so that I didn't catch the WWF representative's name, but I did wake up when I heard him talking about a report that the organization recently released. What woke me up was not that it was anything that I hadn't heard before: the poles are melting; we have lost 30% of our biodiversity in the last 30 years; half of the average North American foot print comes from carbon emissions; the average per capita North American footprint is 5 times what it should be and this current lifestyle cannot be sustained indefinitely.

What had me hopping in bed with excitment (if you can imagine that) was the WWF representative said as clear as day that in order to deal with these "unsustainable" levels of carbon emissions that we are producing, we need to cut back on our use of coal and oil based energy.

Maybe he didn't get into peak oil and the coming energy crisis, but CBC radio was giving air time to the concept of cutting back consumption of carbon-based energy. It is a step in the right direction.

I went looking online when I got to work. The report was called the Living Planet Report and I think the WWF representative was James P. Leape, Director General of WWF International. You can download the full report here: [PDF 3.08MB]