Climate Action Network Canada reacts to yesterday’s CBC news report that Canada is planning NOT to meet its already rather weak carbon emission reduction targets.
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Red Tory v.3.0.3 · You might very well think that…
Turning the corner into a cul-de-sac.
In a 100 words or less, and, without shutting down or greatly reducing the two largest C02 emitters in Canada, the Oil Sands and Ontario’s Coal Fired Electricity Plants, how would Canada greatly reduce our C02 emissions?
“In a 100 words or less, and, without shutting down or greatly reducing the two largest C02 emitters in Canada, the Oil Sands and Ontario’s Coal Fired Electricity Plants, how would Canada greatly reduce our C02 emissions?”
In four words:
“Freeze over and die.”
Very likely to happen in the coming ice age.
I love Ms. Soudas’s high dudgeon. Thinned lips, arms akimbo…”This isn’t FUNNY!”
That’s one unhappy catamite.
Considering almost all of the oil from the tar-sands is exported to the USA, how exactly would we freeze without it?
Its not the exported oil from Alberta its the 10′s of billions of transfer money that all of Canada would have to live without…yearly.
Its not the exported oil from Alberta its the 10’s of billions of transfer money that all of Canada would have to live without…yearly.
Oh, here we go…
…so instead, Alberta and the rest of Canada would be forced to make things, or add value to things instead of pulling stuff out of the ground and shipping it elsewhere to add value…
I am all for it.
Careful, or billg will cut yer transfer…
…oh here we go…
I know reality is a pain in the ass, but, it would be nice to hear some kind of an answer to a very simple question. There just seems to be so many people wanting Canada to get to a level of emissions but they want someone else to figure out a way to do it. And..what exactly is a “green” job, and, where are they?
I actually don’t even care about Canada’s emissions. With 2% of the total, it’s not like we’re going to make a difference, one way or the other.
I don’t appreciate unleashing the ‘Bertans to embarrass us, though, by funding deniers and trolls and undermining the deliberative process that lead to international accords.
The international backlash against the tar sands is mounting and, sad to say, the ‘Bertans have burned too many bridges with the rest of the country for any of us to give a damn.
Too bad, so sad.
Alberta is going to cross this bridge eventually anyway. There is only so much recoverable oil in the ground and once its gone Alberta go back to being a farming province like it was (with marginal farmland at that.)
Gee Bill, if it wasn’t for all of those transfer payments I guess Canadians would have to live on a smaller budget, wouldn’t they? I would thought the prospect of a more limited government would have pleased you…
Funny how Newfoundlanders and Saskatchewanians can have such abundant natural resources and not be such dicks about.
Canadians would never accept living on a smaller budget, but, it would be fun to watch the debate.
I actually support big government and unions.
We seem to have billions in bialouts and stimulus dollars every 20 years or, so, are not PS jobs the ultimate in stimulus? I never understood why right wing politicians always want to cut PS jobs and at the same time bail out corporations to the tune of billions. And Navvy….I’m sure in 20 years Sask and Nfld will both be tired of “thanks for the cash and the oil but you should be ashamed of what you’ve done to the planet”…
Oh, no! I agree with Ti-Guy:
“I actually don’t even care about Canada’s emissions.” — Ti-Guy.
The end of the world is neigh.
Actually I wasn’t talking about environmental views bill. If Albertans want to mess up their province who am I to protest? I was talking about more general dickedness. Inflated sense of self-worth and an unshakeable belief that they got to where they are today through sheer determination and elbow-grease, rather than the fact that you can’t squat in Alberta without having a gusher up the arse.
“And..what exactly is a “green” job, and, where are they?”
Green Jobs Canada
I’ve met a few like that Navvy, but, they certainly are not the norm. I looked at that website TofKW and the majority of those jobs were around 30 years ago…camping guides, cooks, fisheries, there were some that can be linked to a green economy but very few. If 100,000 people were to leave the oil patch’s in Alberta and Saskatchewan and Newfoundland in the next 20 years, what would the new green jobs be?
“The end of the world is ‘neigh’”?!
Talk about the horsemen of the apocalypse!
Why didn’t any of you geniuses catch that? For shame.
I don’t think in terms of “green jobs” but a green (ie. sustainable) economy which will have to imply zero-growth economics. Not that’s there’s fat chance of seeing *that* in my lifetime.
That I agree with Ti-Guy!
“I don’t think in terms of “green jobs” but a green (ie. sustainable) economy which will have to imply zero-growth economics.” — Ti-Guy
Have we got a prezeedent for you. He’s got NEGATIVE growth economic goin’ on. Life is good. Less carbon emissions. Birds are tying ribbons in little girls’ hair. All that jazz.
America is greening up!
Not so much to hate now, eh, Ti-Guy?
America the Green:
O beautiful for cooling skies,
For no more acid rains.
For Gaia loving prints on tees
Worn by annoying pains!
America! America!
Earth shed her grace on thee
With decreasing good; no burning wood
But sustainability!
“The end of the world is neigh.”
spoken like a true jackass.
KEvron
100 years ago Guzz it was unthinkable to believe that some day no matter what your lott in life was you would be able to access a doctor, or, buy a house, or send your kids to college, have two days off every week….zero growth has to happen sooner or later and I’d rather it be sooner then later. It wont be in my life time but diminishing it seems rather foolish and simplistic.
“spoken like a true jackass.” — KEvron
HEe HAw! MOst Excellent, KEvron!
– THe FIrst HOrseman OF THe APocalypse.
“zero growth has to happen sooner or later and I’d rather it be sooner then later.”
Sure it’s called stagnation. Look at the green paradises that were or are the Soviet Union, East Germany, or North Korea.
You, for one, welcome our new watermelon overlords.
“It wont be in my life time but diminishing it seems rather foolish and simplistic.”
It’s been in your lifetime. And it sucks.
Uh, zero-growth isn’t incompatible with a free market economy, Einstein..
Uh, yes it is, Friedman.
Specifically:
“Zero-growth economic policies are most certainly incompatible with free-market principles, in that they entail the coercive forces of governmental actions to tamp down economic dynamics in certain chosen areas of the market. This necessarily leads to systemic inefficiencies.” — Milton Friedman, June 1979.
How so?
See above.
“….and he rode out to troll.”
KEvron
“See above.”
nice tautology, but i think ti-guy would like you to expand on your c&p.
KEvron
but i think ti-guy would like you to expand on your c&p.
I kind of don’t, actually. I can imagine what the assault on a multitude of sensibilities would be.
Serves me right for engaging it.
And I watched as the eco-friendly savior opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a white horse! “Neighhhhhh!” Its rider held a memory flash drive of AGW modeling code, and he was given a Nobel Peace Prize, and he rode out as a Scientist bent on establishing sustainable macro-economic policies.
“but i think ti-guy would like you to expand on your c&p.” KEvron
“I kind of don’t, actually. I can imagine what the assault on a multitude of sensibilities would be.” — Ti-Guy.
Instead, why don’t you explain to me how Friedman, a prize-winning economist, is wrong, and how YOU, an anonymous commenter from North Ontarioio with no known credentials, is right?
“Serves me right for engaging it.”
i keep telling you guys….
KEvron
“Instead, why don’t you explain to me”
you give him anything more than a c&p, without any elaboration, and i’ll clobber you.
KEvron
WHY IS THe ONus ON ME, KEvron, TO REfute TI-GUy’s BAseless ASsertion THat ZEro-GRowth EConomics ARe NOt INcompatible WIth A FRee MArket EConomy?
I did more that my fair share by quoting Friedman’s argument that sustaining zero-growth will necessarily entail government intervention in the market, which will result in market inefficiencies.
There, i just answered his question. Now maybe he will answer mine. (NEver FEar KEvron, I WOn’t HOld MY BReath!)
“I did more that my fair share”
“troll” it is, then.
KEvron
OK. YOu OUghta KNow.
how so? oh, no, that’s been tried….
KEvron
“I WOn’t HOld MY BReath”
maybe next time, then.
KEvron
YOu DO HOpe AGainst ALl HOpe.
then i’ll have to take my victories where i can get them.
KEvron
HOping IS NOt a WInning STrategy, KEvron.
hm. that’s the second time on this thread you’ve introduced a notion, then denied ownership.
KEvron
I THink YOu ARe ONe CONfused ARtiste, KEvron. I DEnied OWnership OF NOthing. I SEek ONly TO ENlighten THe Benighted.
IN ANy EVent, THe INtroduction OF A THing DOes NOt IMply OWnership OF THe THing.
“BEnighted”
KEvron
OOps. THanks.
Jesus Christ, shaddap, Guzz, you asshole.
Friedman was economic advisor to Ronald Reagan.
Hm……I’ll take Einstein then given the choice.
You WOULD choose Einstein as an economist, Banal.
You WOULD choose Einstein as an economist…
At this juncture, most people would.
Mark Francis would call that a “factless assertion.”