The funniest part of this whataboutism is that you don’t realize that you’re putting Israel at the same level as some terrorist organization.

This user’s mod log shows bans from multiple communities as a bot account.

Or maybe I just think for myself, look at the facts as best as they can be determined,

Think for yourself, but base your thinking on actual science: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/summary-for-policymakers/ Anything less than that puts you in the same category as the antivaxxer lunatics. But you’ve already clearly said that “anthropogenic global warming is only half real”, so I don’t know what the point of continuing this discussion is.

don’t buy into the ‘doom and gloom’ propaganda that says we’re all going to be dead from climate change in the next few years.

That’s a gross misrepresentation of what the science says and what climate-science-driven policy is about. Read the IPCC summary for policymakers and argue with facts, not with strawman arguments.

REASONABLE and moderate policy is fine

Yea, that’s the problem. Your Overton Window is out of calibration because you’re not based on reality but on vibes. What you consider “reasonable” is in fact already an extremist fantasy, because, counter-intiutively, your “normal” is an extremist unsustainable status quo.

Everyone, before responding to this person, be advised that this is a climate change “skeptic” who shills for the Oil and Gas industry and spouts doomerist propaganda that any anti-emissions policy in Canada is pointless because we are “only” producing 1.5% of global emissions.

Yes, and those are streets where cars are the ones that have to slow the fuck down, and give priority to pedestrians, kids, and bicycles. Woonerfs. I.e., infrastructure.

More generally: the idea is that cities need to be restructured to make cycling and transit the preferred transit options with cars the “ok if you really must” option. Currently we are at the exact opposite polarity. Our infrastructure reflects this basic foundational choice. Idaho stops are still operating under that foundational choice. We need to rethink the foundation, therefore we need to rethink infrastructure. Then, instead of talking about giving new meaning to car centric signs, i.e., about making more space to humans in a car centered world, we would be talking about finding the right space for cars in a human centered world.

If that’s daft, then fine.

Ps. I’m not against the Idaho stop. If that’s what it takes to keep the cops from harassing cyclists and to keep some road rage at bay, that’s good. I’m against thinking it solves the problem.

The Dutch did it. The, Finns, the Danes did it. The Brits and the French are in the process of doing it.

And no, you don’t need over/under-passes everywhere, that’s silly.

Ugh your preachy MP sounds like an idiot, sad to hear that.

I don’t care about “everywhere”. I care about cities where most of the cycling happens.

This whole discussion is a distraction. The real solution is to have proper cycling infrastructure. You don’t need to reinterpret road signs if bikes have their own signs in their own protected lanes and protected crossings.

Give me cycling infrastructure of comparable quality to car infrastructure and we got a deal.

The Poilievre far right wing of the Conservatives would have let people die or have their lives destroyed. Blood for the Blood Economy God. I mean we are talking about the people who were cheering on the Convoy assholes.

I wonder what was going on in the world between 2020 and 2022…

src: https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/canada/national-government-debt

The sacrifices are not the insane amounts of defense spending and fossil fuel subsidies I assume.

Debt to do what. That’s the key. If we pay 1B/w to finance debt that was used to invest on stuff that is generating 1.1B/w, we have a net positive ROI. It’s the ROI that matters, not the financing cost.

I like you ask in hypotheticals.

Resist now.

Pay your teachers.

Canada emits way more per capita than China. And China is a world leader in electrification and renewables. Again, things that we should be doing instead of glazing oil and gas. Roll your eyes all you want, but Canada’s 1.5% of global emissions, when we are 0.5% of the global population is an atrocious climate crime.

Your precious incomes will soon be worth squat by the way, the way the climate crisis is unfolding. How many times does your house have to burn or flood before you realize that? My own insurance premiums have gone up because of shit like this and my municipality here in Montreal has to completely rethink storm drainage with sponge parks everywhere. Who pays for that I wander? Look beyond your nose… Climate crisis resilience is something we all pay for. Plank in my eye, get off your high horse and face the music, buddy. The petro-state lifestyle is almost over.

And like I said, against regressive sales taxes. I want to tax capital gains, corporate profits.

It’s also ridiculous how you keep touting your life being better because of your wallet. I guess education for the next generation isn’t among the things that matter for a good life over there. I guess I’m too Greek sometimes and too stuck up on ideals of education. Who needs ευ ζειν when your taxes are low. Somebody tell Aristotle’s ghost the barbarians have other ideas.

they give them breaks on their own taxes and royalties.

Even easier then. Get them to pay their fair share.

The rest of your post I chalk up to oil&gas propaganda. Alberta’s economy would not need Oil and Gas to stay afloat if they hadn’t been institutionally captured by these climate killing ghouls and had diversified their economy. Like honestly, this is just Big Tobacco but worse, because they are not polluting just lungs, but the entire planetary biosphere, and you’re going to seriously make that argument? They are evil psychopaths, just like Big Tobacco, profiting off of the death and misery of others.

And there is no reason whatsoever that it should be so. Alberta has a fantastic geography for renewables. What Quebec is for hydroelectricity they could be for wind and solar. But instead they keep licking psycho boot. Fuck that. Pay your god damn teachers.

General strike it is then.

A sales tax is a regressive tax. None of us should have sales taxes to begin with. Instead, they should cancel subsidies to oil&gas companies and start taxing them appropriately for the climate killing criminal enterprises that they are.