«At the time we didn't realize how complicated it would be to get the Kyoto Protocol ratified and for it to enter into force internationally,» said Steven Guilbeault, co-founder of Equiterre, a Montreal -
based environmental charity.
He repeats his description of the ways bad
charity (the Great Society) drove out good
charity (religiously
based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and
environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.