Considering we're in the summer of finding out, climate-wise, what isn't reasonable is not making every possible effort to reduce our carbon emissions.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Hear, hear! So far, this summer:
- Water restrictions due to drought forbidding lawn watering in parts of BC (Vancouver, IIRC)
- The greatest year of Canadian wildfires (by area burned), leading to major air advisory warnings in Toronto, New York (where MLB baseball games were cancelled), and other metropolitan areas in addition to locals suffering far greater impacts (e.g., evacuation, property damage)
- Flooding in Nova Scotia where lives were lost
Never have the impacts of climate change been so palpable in our own backyard. If this summer isn't the proverbial canary in the coal mine, what is?
This is the best summer of the rest of your life even if we start doing everything we can right now. They will keep doing everything they can to amass unlimited wealth until they are stopped.
Just checking in to tell @grte to keep up the good work.
I think we all appreciate you posting these stories, even if they are the worst mix of frustrating and depressing.
I'm deeply concerned about the environment and not too knowledgeable of politics. I feel the us versus them between those with ties to Alberta's oil sands and the environmentally concerned factions of this country does little good.
I'd kind of like to shift the conversation from "oil sands bad" (and arguing over that) to the Canadian government simultaneously ending subsidies for oil and gas and creating major subsidies and other incentives for sustainable energy production. I'd like to see major increases in sustainable energy production in Alberta, and these should be widely publicized so the public knows that decreasing reliance on fossil fuels is possible, profitable, and happening by increasing necessity and public pressure
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