I wondered how long it would take you to write about this! Thank you. I've only been living in the province for ten years, but I've seen enough to think this could be just another instance of making a mess (and some money, no doubt) then running away to leave the taxpayers with a big environmental and financial bill. I'm sad, disappointed, and angry. To survive much longer on this planet, we will need to consume less rather than just shifting to alternatives. But, then, there's no money in that sort of lifestyle change, is there?
In a move it says is “helping to advance” to “clean energy,” the Nova Scotia government says it has “unlocked the full potential” of the province’s “abundant natural resources *to be a source of great profits for industry*"
There, fixed it for you Tim.
“We’ve lifted blanket bans and we’re targeting minerals that are in great demand *for industry wanting to make a shitload of cash*,” says Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton.
Fixed it for you Tory.
“Nova Scotians know we need to create *opportunities for rapacious industries*, to become more *profitable* and build stronger *corporations*. The mining and quarrying industry is *very profitable*. We have significant potential to contribute to global supply of the critical minerals that are essential to achieving *higher profits*. Many other minerals are also of strategic importance to *industry's bottom line* and efforts to keep Nova Scotia and Canada *a continuing source of corporate profits*.”
There, translated it from self-serving PR Bullshit into English for you Sean. You're welcome.
Thx for your continued investigatory, questioning, thoughtful analysis...on these topics LP, they always offer new info, perspectives... and help to me and I am sure many others... not to "give up".
You are right on with all this Linda, thanks for bringing it to light. The section on planetary boundaries and our seeming lack of any real concern for the fact that we have pushed past the safe boundaries for most of the ones that have been examined closely is mind-boggling. We are marching towards the brink and doubling down on what has brought us to the brink in the first place - overexploitation of the planet's natural assets. Nobody likes to mention it anymore, but without significant reduction in the number of people on the planet there is no way we can live the lifestyles we've become accustomed to, no matter how efficient or focused our conservation efforts may be. You can only slice the pie so thin before nobody gets enough.
Well, I do think there are other options that have to do with a more equal distribution of wealth, and people learning to discern wants from needs. I am reminded of the waste every time I (very reluctantly) go into a big box store and see all the crap being bought and sold, all coming from the earth, and going back to it, as pollution. In a piece I wrote a few years ago I tried to explore this idea of “sufficiency” — knowing when you have enough of something (living within the Earth’s limits) and where people realize that the best and most beautiful things in life are not only free but have little to do with our consumer culture or accumulation. More and more people are coming to this realization, I think. But on an economic level it would mean abandoning this notion of endless growth (the foundational premise of industrial capitalism) — but there is no political space to advance this view. I truly boggles my mind when I hear this message of green growth being touted by those in the environmental movement… I think it’s barking up the wrong tree.
That photo of Tim guffawing away with the mining dude makes me want to p____ (rhymes with nuke)
And inspired as such, i had this idea. How about all those laughing, tartan wearing dudes (and yes that's all who really are in that picture) take a 12 month camping trip where they get locked into a big, leaking tent -- they can all sleep, eat, dance, drink and bath in the water from the tailings ponds -- on the land that they are currently condemning for exploration and ripping apart for all that radio active clean energy they're about to unlock . Seems only fair.
The problem is that Western oil and gas production is effectively paying for Nova Scotia’s attempts at having a pristine environment. This is unfair and unsustainable. At least the present government has a plan to correct this, while our previous Liberal and NDP governments just pretended this was normal.
When I read a comment like, "significant reduction in the number of people on the planet" --- I wonder where this comes from and how we expect it to be accomplished. "We have too many people on the planet." ---- I get the feeling that this is being pushed on us to think this way...(is it true? Is it the number of people or our consumption? - if we focus on the number rather than our contribution to the problem - stockholders of some of the largest companies wouldn't want us to stop buying now would they) --- as more and more young people are having difficulty conceiving, probably due to stress, diet, exposures to toxins) are choosing not to have children (fear of the future), and vaccines (that actually ended up causing fertility issues in places like Africa.) Does it then allow those in charge to 'take some of us out.' --- war, poison us, spray our food, etc.
You left out mRNA from your list of reproduction inhibitors. I really don’t think stress explains anything, when you think of the wars that previous generations suffered through and yet managed to have large families.
I wondered how long it would take you to write about this! Thank you. I've only been living in the province for ten years, but I've seen enough to think this could be just another instance of making a mess (and some money, no doubt) then running away to leave the taxpayers with a big environmental and financial bill. I'm sad, disappointed, and angry. To survive much longer on this planet, we will need to consume less rather than just shifting to alternatives. But, then, there's no money in that sort of lifestyle change, is there?
Bingo!
In a move it says is “helping to advance” to “clean energy,” the Nova Scotia government says it has “unlocked the full potential” of the province’s “abundant natural resources *to be a source of great profits for industry*"
There, fixed it for you Tim.
“We’ve lifted blanket bans and we’re targeting minerals that are in great demand *for industry wanting to make a shitload of cash*,” says Natural Resources Minister Tory Rushton.
Fixed it for you Tory.
“Nova Scotians know we need to create *opportunities for rapacious industries*, to become more *profitable* and build stronger *corporations*. The mining and quarrying industry is *very profitable*. We have significant potential to contribute to global supply of the critical minerals that are essential to achieving *higher profits*. Many other minerals are also of strategic importance to *industry's bottom line* and efforts to keep Nova Scotia and Canada *a continuing source of corporate profits*.”
There, translated it from self-serving PR Bullshit into English for you Sean. You're welcome.
Thx for your continued investigatory, questioning, thoughtful analysis...on these topics LP, they always offer new info, perspectives... and help to me and I am sure many others... not to "give up".
You are right on with all this Linda, thanks for bringing it to light. The section on planetary boundaries and our seeming lack of any real concern for the fact that we have pushed past the safe boundaries for most of the ones that have been examined closely is mind-boggling. We are marching towards the brink and doubling down on what has brought us to the brink in the first place - overexploitation of the planet's natural assets. Nobody likes to mention it anymore, but without significant reduction in the number of people on the planet there is no way we can live the lifestyles we've become accustomed to, no matter how efficient or focused our conservation efforts may be. You can only slice the pie so thin before nobody gets enough.
Well, I do think there are other options that have to do with a more equal distribution of wealth, and people learning to discern wants from needs. I am reminded of the waste every time I (very reluctantly) go into a big box store and see all the crap being bought and sold, all coming from the earth, and going back to it, as pollution. In a piece I wrote a few years ago I tried to explore this idea of “sufficiency” — knowing when you have enough of something (living within the Earth’s limits) and where people realize that the best and most beautiful things in life are not only free but have little to do with our consumer culture or accumulation. More and more people are coming to this realization, I think. But on an economic level it would mean abandoning this notion of endless growth (the foundational premise of industrial capitalism) — but there is no political space to advance this view. I truly boggles my mind when I hear this message of green growth being touted by those in the environmental movement… I think it’s barking up the wrong tree.
That photo of Tim guffawing away with the mining dude makes me want to p____ (rhymes with nuke)
And inspired as such, i had this idea. How about all those laughing, tartan wearing dudes (and yes that's all who really are in that picture) take a 12 month camping trip where they get locked into a big, leaking tent -- they can all sleep, eat, dance, drink and bath in the water from the tailings ponds -- on the land that they are currently condemning for exploration and ripping apart for all that radio active clean energy they're about to unlock . Seems only fair.
The problem is that Western oil and gas production is effectively paying for Nova Scotia’s attempts at having a pristine environment. This is unfair and unsustainable. At least the present government has a plan to correct this, while our previous Liberal and NDP governments just pretended this was normal.
When I read a comment like, "significant reduction in the number of people on the planet" --- I wonder where this comes from and how we expect it to be accomplished. "We have too many people on the planet." ---- I get the feeling that this is being pushed on us to think this way...(is it true? Is it the number of people or our consumption? - if we focus on the number rather than our contribution to the problem - stockholders of some of the largest companies wouldn't want us to stop buying now would they) --- as more and more young people are having difficulty conceiving, probably due to stress, diet, exposures to toxins) are choosing not to have children (fear of the future), and vaccines (that actually ended up causing fertility issues in places like Africa.) Does it then allow those in charge to 'take some of us out.' --- war, poison us, spray our food, etc.
You left out mRNA from your list of reproduction inhibitors. I really don’t think stress explains anything, when you think of the wars that previous generations suffered through and yet managed to have large families.