Lucy

@lucycappiello.bsky.social

Editor, communicator, flower grower If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.

I know Canadians want to feel safe. I get it. But imagine if any other prime minister kept introducing laws that said "I and my minister get to decide what laws apply, when, and we get to unilaterally and retroactively remove conditions on multi-billion-dollar projects."

I don’t know if I’d say the same for the changes to environmental regulations. Among other issues, the prospect of allowing construction on some projects to begin before approvals have been granted seems like it would make it extremely unpalatable to then not grant them.

Mark Carney has decided humanity's future is not as important as the oil industry's current profits. It's as simple as that. He's not a complete fool, he knows what's coming if we don't decarbonize as quickly as possible, and he's rejected that path in favour of a decade of high oil revenues.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3w ago

Environmental groups say there’s a reason why the federal government quietly released its latest climate report, which finds that average temperatures in Canada are set to go up by at least 3.5 C by the end of the century.

Webworm moth (Ailanthus webworm) — native to and typically found in the US and American tropics, it has begun to move north and has adapted to feed on tree of heaven (an invasive found here). Picture from my garden

Webworm moth on a half-bloomed yellow marigold. Not sure what it's up to.