It seems a bit like being halfway down a waterslide and deciding you want to climb your way back up. Sometimes we leave things just a bit too long. I fear that saving the world is no longer feasible, not at this point. That doesn't mean, however, that we can't take steps to engineer a survivable crash landing here in Canada. Only no one is addressing that idea.
.. I firmly believe we need to see Canada as 'the last redoubt' .. protect it as such. I also belive we must take on remediation projects that we can handle. I have written on this a lot in the past. thus Grassy Narrows, First Nations, Ontario and Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia would be undertaken. Like now. These will be HUGE challenges to complete.. but a proving ground that Canadians have the will & can remediate smaller scale toxic lands and waters.
My role model as a photographer was always W Eugene Smith.. his shots of Minimata mercury poisoning, and with Magnum.. inspired me re shooting and darkroom. I believe Johnny Depp will play him in a film out soon.
Canadians and especially Albertans need to face reality re The Tar Sands expansion plans and re Fracking.. and certainly beautiful British Columbia re natural gas fracking for supposed export.
I have previously outlined a truly ambitious plant closure and cleanup previously re Boat Harbour remediation.. while Grassy Narrows, the Trudeau government has flopped & failed so far re a promised treatment center.. and good luck re Doug Ford managing to cooperate re anything so far over his head.. or lack of ethics
I also hear the federal goverment and the provincial Alberta government are discussing legislation to allow consistant 'venting' of tar sands tailing ponds.. ie releasing toxic wastewaters downstream while expanding free use of upstream waters.. how clever.. just dump the toxics and flush toward the arctic..
.. the current political rationale is basically 'we need to increase emissions in order to lower emissions' Now that's one to test out with Grade 3 students and watch their reactions..
The idiocy of poisoning our land, air & waters for 'profit' extirpating keychain marine and land species stripping out OUR resources on behalf of foreign ownership
Corruption is the gowing political trend.. always dressed up as some sort of Christian ethic or evangelical beatitude.. The combination was a hallmark of Stephen Harper.. and Justin Trudeau is catching up fast. Andrew Scheer is a spineless bit of daily whining propped up by witless scheming political parasites. The worst thing that could happen to Alberta is Jason Kenney - glib Harper era carpetbagger.. in Ontario we have master chef of horseshite salad and his missing in action government Doug Ford until Halloween rolls around.. These are not healthy people.. they are diseased.. and getting stinking wealthy on OUR dime.. and we need a mechanism by which we can summarily dismiss them for failure
It seems a bit like being halfway down a waterslide and deciding you want to climb your way back up. Sometimes we leave things just a bit too long. I fear that saving the world is no longer feasible, not at this point. That doesn't mean, however, that we can't take steps to engineer a survivable crash landing here in Canada. Only no one is addressing that idea.
ReplyDeleteI share your pessimism, Mound. I have lost faith in our capacity or desire to make the hard choices necessary to avert complete collapse.
Delete.. I firmly believe we need to see Canada as 'the last redoubt' .. protect it as such. I also belive we must take on remediation projects that we can handle. I have written on this a lot in the past. thus Grassy Narrows, First Nations, Ontario and Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia would be undertaken. Like now. These will be HUGE challenges to complete.. but a proving ground that Canadians have the will & can remediate smaller scale toxic lands and waters.
ReplyDeleteMy role model as a photographer was always W Eugene Smith.. his shots of Minimata mercury poisoning, and with Magnum.. inspired me re shooting and darkroom. I believe Johnny Depp will play him in a film out soon.
Canadians and especially Albertans need to face reality re The Tar Sands expansion plans and re Fracking.. and certainly beautiful British Columbia re natural gas fracking for supposed export.
I have previously outlined a truly ambitious plant closure and cleanup previously re Boat Harbour remediation.. while Grassy Narrows, the Trudeau government has flopped & failed so far re a promised treatment center.. and good luck re Doug Ford managing to cooperate re anything so far over his head.. or lack of ethics
I also hear the federal goverment and the provincial Alberta government are discussing legislation to allow consistant 'venting' of tar sands tailing ponds.. ie releasing toxic wastewaters downstream while expanding free use of upstream waters.. how clever.. just dump the toxics and flush toward the arctic..
Remediation offers such promise, Sal, but our politicians turn away from anything requiring a firm and committed vision.
Delete.. the current political rationale is basically
ReplyDelete'we need to increase emissions in order to lower emissions'
Now that's one to test out with Grade 3 students
and watch their reactions..
The idiocy of poisoning our land, air & waters for 'profit'
extirpating keychain marine and land species
stripping out OUR resources on behalf of foreign ownership
Corruption is the gowing political trend.. always dressed up as some sort of Christian ethic or evangelical beatitude.. The combination was a hallmark of Stephen Harper.. and Justin Trudeau is catching up fast. Andrew Scheer is a spineless bit of daily whining propped up by witless scheming political parasites. The worst thing that could happen to Alberta is Jason Kenney - glib Harper era carpetbagger.. in Ontario we have master chef of horseshite salad and his missing in action government Doug Ford until Halloween rolls around.. These are not healthy people.. they are diseased.. and getting stinking wealthy on OUR dime.. and we need a mechanism by which we can summarily dismiss them for failure
And yet the acolytes of these failures twist themselves out of shape supporting their failed visions, Sal.
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