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Hi. I'm Robert Cosbey. I live in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I haven't done much to save the world in the last ten years, aside from composting, recycling, etc., but a combination of factors has pushed me into action again. I'm now retired, so theoretically I have more time. (Ha!) I have three kids - now young adults, and I would really like there to be a world for them and possibly their children to live in fifty years from now. Al Gore's excellent movie "An Inconvenient Truth" didn't quite get me moving, but the BBC's "Global Dimming" did. And an old friend had been prodding me to run for the Green Party of Saskatchewan (GPS) for some time. So last week I let my name stand as GPS candidate for my constituency.

I believe global warming is a huge crisis; that massive and immediate action is required to forestall irreversible cataclysmic environmental changes (such as the melting of the Greenland ice cap); and that environmental catastrophe is already upon us, and has already caused many deaths, including death from drought in the Sahel region of Africa and heat-wave deaths in Europe. Australia's drought is reaching catastrophic proportions as well.

Now it looks as if a Saskatchewan provincial election will be called this Wednesday, and I need a site to let voters know who I am, what I believe, and what I stand for. At the same time, I want a site that is informative and useful to those concerned about climate change and other "green" issues, regardless of political context and to some extent regardless of geographical location. Because of the urgency to get something up, I chose to use what I was already familiar with: using www.blogger.com to set up blog hosted at blogspot.com. It lacks some features I would like, but it will have to do for now.