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And validates everything we know about finance bros like him.

Early favourite for the Captain Obvious Award.

The more historically exceptional aspect of that incident is that the perpetrators faced consequences for murdering an innocent man on camera. There dozens of states where that has never happened.

Israel-US state terrorists have been doing it every single day for over two years. Those standards are long gone. High time to accept the confront the new reality.

Free advice: if you find Quentin Tarantino bashing you in the press… repeat after me.

“I was unaware that Harvey Weinstein’s best friend was so critical of me and my work.”

Chantal has the patience of a saint to put up with these profoundly ignorant douchebros. Lie after lie. Watchable only if you skip ahead and just watch her. #cdnpoli

Proves what the extinctionists have always known: Policies are not infrastructure. Infrastructure is infrastructure. Tangible. Life-changing. A pipeline or a fast and efficient electric passenger railway that shapes a century of development. Trudeau's climate infrastructure never actually existed.

Oil and gas only contributes 3% to GDP, and provides 0.7% of jobs.

That's not economic reality. Big oil's domination of the corporate news media is the most effective indoctrination machine the world has ever known. Real politik means operating within it. Science-based reality requires a constant awareness of its inherent falseness. Have you crossed the line?

Of course, but you wrote "immigrant."

Compared to other advanced economies, the US has a relatively low percentage of foreign born citizens. According to statistics at least.

There were always tiers within that loose, surface level concept. Let’s not over romanticize it through the lens of white male privilege. Since at least the 1950s, drivers have been superior to non-drivers.

Have you tried not exporting raw logs? The idea has only been around for a few decades now.

“Disappeared” is even more accurate. Thousands of the abducted are simply off the books and missing.

Electrifying and expanding regional public rail for passengers and freight would have a far more profound and lasting impact, when it comes to transportation emissions.

Are they? www.climateemergencyunit.ca/cbc-climate-...

Yup. Max Fawcett is rapidly morphing into Alberta's version of Ezra Klein. Climate delay is the new climate denial.

Portrait de Frank Gehry

De Los Angeles à Bilbao, en passant par New York et Paris, Frank Gehry a profondément modifié notre regard sur les bâtiments et les musées qu’il bâtissait avec passion et audace.

Mostly because efforts were always half-hearted and prematurely abandoned. The white supremacist indoctrination machine relentlessly distorts everything in North America –  every educational, institutional, business entity and news outlet. Only big oil's extinctionist behemoth is comparable.

A more ruthless industrial policy wouldn't have been enough. Early 2021 made Merrick Garland's gross incompetence plain as day. To not ruthlessly defend democracy in that window of opportunity was a sign that Biden was a man out of time, a fossil from a bygone era of bipartisan white supremacy.

Defining innovation is at the core of the dilema. Is a solar powered oil rig innovation? An AI slop generating data centre? That's the fundamental flaw in Max's argument: Cheaper, greener, more abundant electricity does not by itself instantly decarbonise an economy. Innovation is socio-economic.

Without voter suppression, gerrymandering, and most importantly the complete corruption of the infosphere (where science and genocide denial festers) the US electorate could probably produce a clear consensus – for fairly paid jobs. The IRA should have been unapologetically targeted at blue states.

As steel plants shut down and steel workers lose their jobs by the tens of thousands, ALTO has just now started to consider where their steel will come from. 🤨 It's more slow, corrupt, bureaucratic, market-dependent, management-heavy incompetence. Like laying out a red carpet for PM PP. 🫣

Yup. The IRA needed to build climate infrastructure at China-level speeds. Not just study highspeed rail for years - build it!
Carney is repeating the exact mistakes Biden made with the IRA. The ALTO line won't be start being built for 5 years.

Lastly, ignoring all the false assumptions, Max's end game argument is that cheaper, greener electricity will automatically decarbonize the entire economy. There's no evidence to support that, of course, so it's important to call him out.

Also Max's 'Economy vs Climate Action' false framing deserved an immediate interjection. As did his assertion that BC and Que voters are going to stick with the LPC because of some silly poll said so.

Interesting discussion! Bit odd to focus on fossil fuel infrastructure vs climate policy while ignoring omitting climate infrastructure like electric regional rail considering how much transportation contributes to our emissions.

Alberta’s latest changes to industrial carbon pricing make MOU commitments harder to achieve - Canadian Climate Institute Seven days after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with federal government, Alberta changes regulations that make the $130 minimum effective carbon credit price harder to achieve

Just one week after signing an MOU with the federal govt agreeing to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, Alberta has changed its regulations, making the agreement harder to achieve.

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Policies like an industrial carbon price are obviously super easy to repeal. PP would do it on day one. Tangible infrastructure, like a pipeline, on the otherhand is not. Which is why Elizabeth May's demand should have been for green infrastructure. Eg.An electric passenger rail service to Kamloops.

Seriously? Guess you missed their coverage of the Israel-US genocide. 😂

Max also repeats the Climate Action vs the Economy false framing to defend Carney's future electoral prospects in BC and Que, which even he must know is incorrect. Seems like he's motivated by cheap rhetorical points rather than a coherent or consistent argument?