But that was 2021. What's @mark-carney.bsky.social saying now?: "Canada is gonna be an OIL SUPERPOWER." Nothing says "values" like knowingly torching the future in exchange for access to power and short term gain.
Greg Blee
@gregblee.ca
Retired engineer & writer. Charting baffled, bemused middle course to make sense of the world. Cyclist, punctuation lover, former adventurer. Minimizing importance of politics in my life. Gulf Island dweller, treatied Snuneymuxw FN land, BC, Canada
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Well past time for every country to tax excess oil profits!
Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!@betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 5d agoUPDATE: Portugal has now approved a windfall tax on oil profits!!! Hi @mark-carney.bsky.social - how about 🇨🇦 copies 🇵🇹? It would be a great way to generate some $$ for Building Canada Strong - social programs, climate action, infrastructure, civil defence… (the fossil firms will be fine, promise)
If you want to tune out and relax after a long day, you might turn to social media, online shopping or playing games on your phone. But a new study suggests that these activities might actually stress you out more.
Scrolling endlessly to unwind? It could be making you feel worse.
A new study finds that spending more time on the internet can make you feel grumpier and more stressed. But there are ways you can cut back.
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It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
“Western Europe is on fire. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, blazes are burning in France, Spain, Greece and Türkiye. Authorities are already calling it the worst fire season in modern history.” The worst so far. #ClimateCrisis
Europe pays the price in a summer where heat went off the charts
Stefan Rahmstorf was holidaying in southern France when he came face to face with the climate future he has tried to fight.
abc.net.au
Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.
I'll be willing to buy the desirability of data centers once they locate one in Beverly Hills and one next to Mar-A-Lago.
"Pathways is a non-binding pledge that enables expanded oil production, higher greenhouse gas emissions and billions in public subsidies for pipelines and carbon-capture infrastructure — This is not climate policy; it is greenwashing dressed up as national strategy."
Pathways is a costly climate fiction — and Canadians are paying for it
The 2025 Alberta–Carney agreement explicitly links pipeline construction to the Pathways project. Despite record profits — $37 billion for oilsands producers in 2023 — Canadians are being asked to fin...
nationalobserver.com
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it must only be a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too. 🐢💨
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
It’s not enough to end this terrible idea. They need to end this terrible man’s awful leadership. #FIFA
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 5d agoZURICH (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning his divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after receiving pushback from all corners of the soccer world.
My entire life I’ve never called it the FIFA World Cup. I’ve always called it the World Cup. Fans don’t give a shit about FIFA. If national teams showed up for a World Cup tournament not held by FIFA we would all watch it. World Cup is the brand. FIFA is nothing.
California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.
Japanese officials have coined an entirely new word to signify the dangerous heat of #ClimateChange. It's "kokushobi," which means "cruel heat day." This coinage is but a drop of the coming shower of cultural changes that climate change will force upon us. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/w...
What a surprise! Doug Fords cuts and poor management strikes again.
News flash: Apparently if the AMOC fails (due to global heating), Britain’s climate will become more Iceland than Mediterranean.
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d agoThe Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
Do you know what China's been doing while we've been dropping bombs and allocating more money for new weapons? Beating us on alternative energy, manufacturing, high speed rail, technology, microchips, and infrastructure.
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
We deserve better. People across Canada will bear the environmental and economic risks of a new oil pipeline — while wealthy, largely U.S.-owned companies reap the profits. PM @mark-carney.bsky.social , this is not what Canadians voted for.
The Prime Minister of Spain: “This climate emergency is exceeding every threshold and scale that scientists have long warned all of Spain and Europe about.” This is the realistic climate discourse the world needs. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...
Old school style, old school vibes. SonicTree is for people who like browse music files in folders the way they are stored on the disk. https://itsfoss.com/sonictree-music-player/
"Human-caused climate change plays a key role in the province's worsening wildfire seasons." And ICYMI, the main culprit is fossil fuels like oil and methane gas (LNG). #bcwildfire #bcpoli
BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 2w agoBRITISH COLUMBIA: “B.C. wildfires trigger evacuation orders, alerts amid hot, dry weather” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BCWildfire #BootlegComplex #BostonBar #BrunswickComplex #ClintonBC #FiftynineCreekWildfire #Kimberley #Wildfires
WATCH: Whether you love cars or hate cars, you should watch this new video and better understand the truth about the real costs & consequences of too many cars in our cities, and the car dependency many of us live in. You might find it hard to watch, but watch it to the end anyway. Via #NotJustBikes
Every Reason to Hate Cars
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com