Reflections, Observations, and Analyses Pertaining to the Canadian Political Scene
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
D.C. Disaster
What more can be said about climate change than hasn't already been said? Video, however, continues to compel people's attention before they are once again diverted by the latest on social media and other trivialities. Begin at about the 5:00 mark:
I would like to think there could be a climate epiphany in the US, Lorne, but that's probably wishful thinking. An inability to respond to threats raises the conflict between the private sector and public interests into stark relief. Plutocracy subordinates public welfare to private advantage. Disaster capitalism takes hold.
I have trouble escaping the sense that we've left this much too late to be able to change course now. There's too much economic and political power vested in the few and they're not going to give that up without a fight.
Look at Canada where we've got Ford, Pallister, Moe, Kenney, Trudeau and Scheer, even gas-happy Horgan all on the fossil fuel steamroller. How in god's name can we expect to get out from under that? It's becoming increasingly more difficult to not see them as inimical to the country and the Canadian people. "Inimical" - that's how the reptilian Joe Oliver referred to environmental activists.
I have to agree with everything you said, Mound.I think that is why I find that I must vote Green in the fall; all the other parties and their leaders have failed abjectly in placing the public interest where it belongs: at the top of the hierarchy.
I would like to think there could be a climate epiphany in the US, Lorne, but that's probably wishful thinking. An inability to respond to threats raises the conflict between the private sector and public interests into stark relief. Plutocracy subordinates public welfare to private advantage. Disaster capitalism takes hold.
ReplyDeleteI have trouble escaping the sense that we've left this much too late to be able to change course now. There's too much economic and political power vested in the few and they're not going to give that up without a fight.
Look at Canada where we've got Ford, Pallister, Moe, Kenney, Trudeau and Scheer, even gas-happy Horgan all on the fossil fuel steamroller. How in god's name can we expect to get out from under that? It's becoming increasingly more difficult to not see them as inimical to the country and the Canadian people. "Inimical" - that's how the reptilian Joe Oliver referred to environmental activists.
I have to agree with everything you said, Mound.I think that is why I find that I must vote Green in the fall; all the other parties and their leaders have failed abjectly in placing the public interest where it belongs: at the top of the hierarchy.
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