As I’ve gotten older, I pretty much lost faith that we as a society will actually tackle the problem of climate change as we have complete corporate capture of our governments and there’s absolutely nothing that you or I as individuals can do anything about anything.  CNN published this story over the weekend and it made me sad for future generations. 🙁

Are you frightened by climate change? Do you worry about what sort of world we are bequeathing to our children and grandchildren? In the words of science writer and author of “The Uninhabitable Earth” David Wallace-Wells, “No matter how well informed you are, you are surely not alarmed enough.”

I would put it even more strongly.

If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it. The reality is that, as far as we know, and in the natural course of events, our world has never — in its entire history — heated up as rapidly as it is doing now. Nor have greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere ever seen such a precipitous hike.

Source: CNN

Our incompetent leaders virtue signal by banning plastic straws while the rich and corporations have virtually no limits to what they can do, heaven forbid they be inconvenienced…

The UN came out and said global CO2 emissions need to peak in 2025 and then go to net zero by 2050.

“I think the report tells us that we’ve reached the now-or-never point of limiting warming to 1.5C,” said IPCC lead author Heleen De Coninck, who’s Professor of Socio-Technical Innovation and Climate Change at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Speaking to BBC News she said: “We have to peak our greenhouse gas emissions before 2025 and after that, reduce them very rapidly.

“And we will have to do negative emissions or carbon dioxide removal in the second half of the century, shortly after 2050, in order to limit warming to 1.5C.”

Source: BBC

There’s absolutely no way we’ll reach those goals, we as a species on this planet is doomed and I worry so much for Brandon and future generations.

Anyone who’s read my blog knows the environment is near and dear to my heart and now, I am convinced frankly that humanity is screwed.  Our weak willed political leaders only talk, as a Canadian I know since we have the king of photo ops and pretty words Trudeau has done absolutely nothing during his time in power to help the environment, in fact he’s done the opposite by buying an oil pipeline for the benefit of a private company no less!  That’s why I tell people, the Liberals are no better on the environment than the Conservatives, at least with the latter they’ll telegraph their intentions to your face, the Liberals say one thing then do the opposite.

I already hate the CBC and this clip made me want to vomit.

Before Canada lectures other world leaders on what they should do on the environment, maybe we should clean up our house first.  Unfortunately with Trudeau as our leader, that’s not going to happen and I do worry very much for what is in store for Brandon and his generation.

I don’t know who Jeffrey Sachs is but good for him on pushing back on this insane BBC narrative, where he was brought in to discuss climate change and they open talking about China’s human rights abuses & whether the West can trust it.  Yes, I believe what China is doing to the Uighur population amounts to a genocide but that shouldn’t affect any discussions on climate change they’re different topics altogether.  Human rights are important but climate change will kill us all.  Good for Professor Sachs for pushing back and illustrating US government hypocrisy, they are in absolutely no position to lecture anyone about human rights.

Also why is a supposed news organization taking its talking points from the Biden administration?!?  Shouldn’t it be you know independent and report on the facts, “both countries suck but need to work together to combat climate change or we’re doomed!”

I don’t think I’ve ranted about Earth day for a while but lol get ready… Yes I hate Earth day (and Earth hour), it’s 2021 and if you do not understand the science behind climate change, you’re either woefully ignorant or worse a science denier.   Raising awareness of climate change is was noble 20 years ago, now not so much and by doing “something” today whether it’s picking up garbage or using less electronics, it gives people the false sense that they’ve accomplished something.

We need real sustained government action on climate change and should not accept flowery language from our leaders.  Haha being a Canadian, our PM is a master there at saying the right things and doing the exact opposite…  I have 0 faith in anything the Liberal party says, they’re simply liars.

Everyone needs to do their part yes but we need much more then that, we need the government to properly regulate industry because they’re by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.  Unfortunately I don’t see that happening anytime soon, Western democracies only look at what works in the near future and all I expect are platitudes.

Humanity is pretty fucked.

Kudos for CBC for digging this up.  If these assholes feel so strongly that as the supplier, we have responsibility in cleaning up the mess, they should be public with this position instead of doing backroom deals.

One can debate who’s responsible for the mess of nuclear waste but the deal should be out in the open for Canadians to decide.  If the deal is we need to take the waste back to secure for thousands of years then maybe we don’t want to sell it anymore.

More Liberal bullshit sigh…

Humanity is heading towards climate catastrophe and I feel absolutely powerless.  While I’m busy securing my financial future, will there be an actual future to look forward to?  Especially with a young son, climate change is one of the things I most worry about yet can see that our leaders are doing absolutely nothing but smoke & mirrors.

Runaway climate change can lead to the collapse of society, Canada will weather the storm better than most but we’re already seeing the dramatic affects and we really need to do more to change.  Sigh it’s sad that despite much of the world shutting down in 2020, our carbon output still increased.  The sooner we can transition to a renewable fuel source the better then we can try and go further to undo the damage.

There are a lot of things to be outraged about in the world right now which is why the Liberal government thought it’d be the perfect time to exempt oil companies from environmental assessments.

The federal government has announced a change it expects will help Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil and gas industry as it struggles to stay on its feet.

A new regulation means environmental assessments for exploratory drilling offshore will be done more quickly, by exempting offshore drilling in Newfoundland and Labrador from federal environmental impact assessments.

Source: CBC

But it’s ok because Justin Trudeau says the right things, he’s part of the team…  If the Conservatives did this, the Liberals (and their supporters) would freak the hell out, talk about how evil the Conservatives are and such but since it’s the Libs, it’s crickets…  I’m not a hypocrite, I call out both parties and this is wrong whether you like the Liberals or not.