Evidence is overwhelming that human activities contribute to climate change. Food, water, housing, civil infrastructure and essential services are impacted. Health and long-term survival of living forms are threatened. Continued increases in troublesome emissions threaten an extreme catastrophe beyond adaptation.
Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms declares that “every individual is equal before and under the law…” That may be technically true, but it is not the way our society works.
Utter a threat to cause bodily harm to any person, or threaten to damage real or personal property, and Canada’s Criminal Code says you could be sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and/or a $5,000 fine.
Be part of the group most responsible for threatening humanity by driving climate change, governments say, “We can help with tax breaks and financial subsidies and by arresting people who oppose what you do.
Regarding climate change, the country’s richest people do the most harm but wield enormous influence in politics.
Over 15 years, the world’s wealthiest 0.1% increased CO2 emissions more than the total amount produced by 99% of Earth’s population. The consequence? In the same 15 years, wealth of the top 0.1% almost doubled.
Disparities have grown over time. There is:
a powerful disconnect between those facing the worst climate impacts and those reaping the economic and consumption benefits that drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
Super Emitters – euronews.green
“The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction, leaving humanity choking on extreme heat, floods and drought,” Oxfam International’s interim executive director, Amitabh Behar, said in a news release on Monday. He called for world leaders to “end the era of extreme wealth.”
…Some in recent years have also floated the idea of taxing high-carbon-emissions behavior, such as the purchase or use of private jets, yachts and high-end fossil fuel cars…
Washington Post
We can now destroy or we can cherish, the choice is ours.
David Attenborough
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Do you really think Eby, Smith, Trudeau and all their sycophants will
do anything and will we be willing to make the necessary changes
to out life style demands? We live in a capitalistic society centred
on growth and for that model to survive we need increasing consumption
to keep it fed. Until the model changes we will continue to be a prime
example of the onward and downward charge we support to the destruction
of Gaia. It is almost like declaring war and nobody shows up.
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An addendum….Finally an article in a softer form of the movie “The Road”
only in written form. The plan B is available only to those who will not
be here in 2050. Authors of books on climate change can leave their
quills in their ink wells as the final chapter has been written besides
Xmas is coming and the capitalistic system needs us to get out and
grease the wheel. I still wonder why we support such a high level of
immigration to a country that as a CO2 contributor is in the top 5 on a per capita basis. Is it the small total population contribution that makes us
so self righteous and minimizes the example we show to the rest of the
world. Other small populated countries should strive to follow our lead?
The poem “Hope” is the thing of feathers by Emily Dickinson can
only be read in the minds eye these days because it certainly does
not exist in reality when addressing climate.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/11/22/Lost-Climate-War-Plan-B/
Onwards and downwards.
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