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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Green protestors really just want to give you a hug.
Working on climate change is an act of love
By Catherine Abreu in Opinion, Energy, Politics | May 28th 2018
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The truth is that working on climate change is not a fight: it is an act of love. Those of us who dedicate our lives to this effort, in whatever setting we choose to work (there are climate activists in governments and businesses everywhere), do it because we love our families, our children, the lake we swam in as teenagers, the communities we have seen suffer as weather gets more extreme and sea levels rise. We do it because we see the injustice and inequity and colonial ideology that both drives and is exacerbated by climate change, and we have to believe in a world liberated from these institutions of violence.
And so these moments hurt – these moments where ambitious climate policy is undermined by expanding fossil fuel infrastructure. They enrage. And we fight because we have to to protect what we love.
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Renewable energy has created 15,300 direct jobs for Indigenous workers across Canada in the last eight years. Efficiency Nova Scotia has created 1,200 long-term jobs in one Maritime province alone. Kinder Morgan has told the National Energy Board it would create just 90 long-term pipeline operating jobs with the Trans Mountain expansion. Some of the world’s first all-electric low-emissions mines are being built in Northern Ontario and Quebec and will employ hundreds. Cutting methane pollution in Alberta will create thousands of jobs. The evidence is bountiful.
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Read more: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/05/28/opinion/working-climate-change-act-love
Quite apart from the economic illiteracy of suggesting employing 15,000 people to do a job which could be done by 90 people is a good thing, I find this conflation of love and rage rather disturbing.
SJWs always lie. I prefer the e.e.cummings version: “every kumrad is a bit of quite unmitigated hate.” He knew what motivated them a century ago.
The funny part about this whole mess is that apparently the Trudeau government, which has imposed a carbon tax that’s greatly increased the cost of energy in Canada, is now going to buy the pipeline so Canada can ship EVIL CARBON to the rest of the world.
Climate Action Network Canada is funded by Tides Foundation.
Love can be such a struggle or is it they simply love to struggle and in global climate they’ve found their Utopia.
I am happy to hear from contributors that big hydro is once again in the Yes column of the fanatical greens. The exclusion of the most sensible option from the renewable range of technologies was always an embarrassing error on their part.
Increasing the generating capacity of Niagara Falls is attractive. Wind turbines (while they last) can all be used to operate pumps that reverse the falls, pumping water into the reservoir above, and larger generators can use it as needed. Lake Erie can be a large pumped-storage tank. This will eliminate the need for gas generating plants like the new one at Halton Hills.
The point of an energy carrying system is not to create jobs running it, but to create jobs using the energy provided. Electric mining and processing of ores is a great idea. It has been done that way in Canada in lots of places for a long time. Forgotten is the Ragged Chute Ontario compressed air supply plant, built on a river with a decent drop and volume. IT provided compressed ait to as many as 10 mines at a time without using any electricity at all. Niagara could also provide compressed air for vehicles and other mechanical work – street care for instance, at an extremely low running cost. Chicago had compressed air street cars until the City Fathers were bribed by electricity generating companies to switch.
The compressed air auto engine designed by a former F1 engine designer is brilliant and is about as ‘green’ as technology can get – “Look Ma! No batteries!” There are lots of interesting things you can do when you have a lot of running water.
So much hate and anger displayed by these eco-fascists, claiming ‘love’ motivates their regurgitated spite and venomous acts. Their Orwellian behavior defies the Age of Reason.
“… working on climate change is not a fight: it is an act of love.”
Definitely a slippery slope. Isn’t the love of Allah the rationalization used by Islamic terrorists?
How do I loath thee? Let me count the ways!
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Love is hate to some people. Nothing says hate like wind turbines.
15,000 doing something 100% USELESS, only in place to increase the wealth of the already wealthy and designed to trash the economy and environment. Why not hire people to walk up and down the street all day? You can create 15,000 useless jobs that way and do far, far less damage to the environment.
They have declared war on an entirely beneficial gas.
They have declared war on those who disagree with them.
They have declared war on rationality, truth, and on science.
They have declared war on the improved standards of living of the western world.
They have declared war on democracy.
Yeah, sounds like “love” to me!
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Bruce,
To me it looks like that version of love that uses a barbed-wire bog brush.
Not easily -if at all – discernible from hate.
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“the communities we have seen suffer as weather gets more extreme and sea levels rise”, But there is no human discernible change in either. The actual measured change in sea level is less than the height of ocean waves over a lifetime and the increase in violent storms is made up by pretending every big storm is unprecedented. I guess if you’re under ten years old you may never have seen a bigger one.
In the center of the photo accompanying the article, there appears to be a loving soul with a t-shirt that reads, FUCK YOU WALK.
… so very, very loving, indeed !
Given his girth, it doesn’t look like he does much walking.
Walk up to those people and say you voted for Trump and would do it again. You will quickly find out just how incredibly loving they really are.
Wow. This article is really a masterclass in fake news. I’m impressed.
Take an article from somewhere (Canada in this case).
Extract it, to take out the parts that might be argued to agree with your case. Put boldface on useful lines (but don’t say you’ve done so).
Take a photo that emphasizes what you want to say. It doesn’t matter if it’s actually about another topic (anti-fascism) and from another country (the USA). You can assume that most readers won’t bother to fact-check.
Put a good banner over the photo (‘climate ugliness’). It doesn’t matter if it misrepresents the photo.
Et voilà! An article.
In other words, you can’t refute the article so you are just going to declare it false news so you don’t have to.
I don’t want to refute it. I want to be honestly informed. I want to read the article, and maybe learn.
However this article wants to mislead me, a reader, by manipulating the context and details. So I have to conclude that it isn’t a source of useful information.
From the source of much of the material in “Climate Activism is an Act of Love,” Jon Hernandez, a journalist from Vancouver, B.C. writes: “Renewable energy projects like Disney’s [burning waste wood from lumbering] are on the rise in Indigenous communities across the country [Canada]. And when it comes to moving away from fossil fuels, some industry experts say First Nations are ahead of the curve.” (“How First Nations got ahead of the curve on clean energy,” CBC News, Mar 27, 2017)
I don’t think so!
To extrapolate W Dusk Energy Group’s installation of solar panels to power the Haida Heritage Centre and a projector for an art project on an island offshore Canada with a population of less than 1000 inhabitants to being “ahead of the curve on clean energy” is a storm in a teacup. In recent years, large-scale solar projects, $500 million and more, have failed throughout the world. The technology has yet to be developed to store alternate energy for commercial scale developments when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.
Small-scale solar projects only work when stand-by fossil fuel or hydroelectric power generation is available. The bulk of small-scale projects in Canada rely on hydroelectric power, and hydroelectric power will never supply more than few percent of world-wide energy needs.
Biomass energy, e.g. wood chips, is even more problematic. The EPA warns that wood smoke is made up of a mixture of fine particles and toxic gases that can harm your health. Exposure to wood smoke increases susceptibility to respiratory infections and has been linked to heart attacks, irregular heartbeat, heart failure, and stroke. Technically sophisticated burners are necessary to deal with these hazards. Returning to wood-burning boilers does not seem to be “ahead of the curve” to me.
A local city administrator on the island cites rising sea levels due to climate change as another reason to reduce harmful emissions from fossil fuel power generation plants and add more solar panels. Whether or not sea levels are rising is as yet unresolved and, even if relevant, would not be mitigated by the actions of small communities in northern Canada.
What I see are special interests hoping to get rich while the media continues to spew misinformation on climate change.
P.S. Jon Hernandez has reported on mass international migration in Chile, controversial logging practices in British Columbia, and the global HIV/AIDS epidemic as well as climate science issues. He must be a multi-faceted writer.