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The CO2 day balloons are gonna suck. They just lay there on the ground.
My thought process:
"Hah! The Beaverton really went beyond silly this time.
Oh, fuck..."
Fucking UCP government just deep in the pockets of Big Oil. Just rename yourself The Oil Sands Political Party and at least be honest about it, ya fucking loser assholes.
They're not so much in the pockets of big oil so much as they literally are big oil. At least a part of it.
Of all the places on earth that might conceivably come out slightly ahead on climate change, Canada and Russia are two of the biggest.
Can't help but feel these two countries consistently being some of the worst on per capita emissions isn't a coincidence.
Canada was created as a colonialist apparatus, that exists to facilitate the extraction of natural and human resources, and transfer them to private ownership. It's literally the reason the country exists, and it has never been reformed. We just cover it up with PR. We don't emit greenhouse gasses because we are trying to terraform the planet, it's just the most profitable way to exploit our resources right now.
βCO2 is presently at around 420 ppm, near the lowest level in over 1,000 years.β
They mean the lowest over the next 1000 years
"I think this reminds us that the base of the UCP is host to a pretty substantial group of people who do not believe that climate change is real, or they donβt believe that it is driven by human activity, and they think that any actions taken to transition away from fossil fuels are unnecessary."
Or they're just jerks who know it's real, but don't care and are looking to virtue (vice?) signal their right-wing bona fides.
I have a coworker that says we need more CO2 in the atmosphere. π
you know, you really are a moron
usually puts a damper on all future interactions with those kind of people.
If these were the kinds of people who also planted a thousand trees a year and are seriously into conservation, I'd believe it, but they usually aren't.
It's like anti-abortion people who run maternal- and children's-welfare agencies and give a ton of money to help orphans, work school-lunch programs, etc. They're about the only ones who are allowed to have that opinion, and they're vanishingly rare, dwarfed by the kind that just a) hate women and/or b) want to vice-signal.
Ok, I'm convinced, let Alberta separate.
Just nuke the whole province and start over
Sincerely, An Albertan
What happened to those facts over feelings?
