I hate that the idea of Canada acquiring nukes has become so prevalent. Having nukes does not help anyone, it merely increases the global risk of nuclear war. Every country with nukes is another country that can decide to pull the trigger.

Consider the actual calculus that goes into MAD. If we think we have a nuke heading towards us, we have to act prior to verification. The decision that is effectively to be made is: do we let a potential nuke hit one of our cities and let millions of people die, or do we launch a counter attack and kill millions more people and prompt further response from the enemy? The most likely outcome of this is full scale nuclear war. Even between two countries, this would devastate the planet and result in countless deaths.

Counterintuitively, even if we have nukes, launching a counterattack is the response that would result in the worst possible outcome. But it is also useless to have nukes if you have no possible intent of using them defensively. This is basically entering into the most apocalyptic game of chicken that anyone can play.

This is such a lovely comic

I read this in Mrs. McMurray's voice

I'm not sure what the words "largest in the world" means to you but...

I can have the largest ball of yarn in the world and it won't make a difference to climate change. This technology literally doesn't exist in the way people are selling it and to suggest that it will exist because "we need this tech" is absurd. The promises of AI technology are more realistic than direct air carbon capture.

Technology already exists that reduces carbon emissions and it is cheap as hell. It just doesn't permit oil corporations to keep making money.

Trudeau instituted a 100% tarrif on Chinese EVs

You're right, I made a mistake there.

To your larger point, this is a weird binary choice.

I don't swe why that's the case when the headline of the story is literally that the climate plan is too expensive. Why are we putting more money into oil if we don't have enough money to protect the climate? If it is a matter of needing to spend that money on industry, why not spend it on diversifying the industries in Alberta and saskatchewan rather than funneling more money into a world-killing industry that employs fewer workers every year due to automation?

Like what is the actual upside for the average Canadian? Does it really make sense to be investing to expand oil revenue rather than green technology? Or honestly any other high tech industry? Instead Canada seems dead set on remaining a resource based economy.

This is my favourite episode of Star Trek

This is serious cope. The nuclear and wind projects were planned before Carney, the only difference I am aware of is that he's promised these projects more federal dollars and loosening regulations to try to speed those things along.

If memory serves, the Alberta pipeline MOU comes with the world's (possibly just North America's) largest carbon capture mechanism, which is incredibly useful if we want to down the road join into the EU CBAM with other countries, which would be a climate change game changer.

Direct air carbon capture is vaporware. Literally no proven scale-able methods exist. The cost of any serious carbon sequestration would be high enough that the only reason you would do it over just building renewables and reducing oil and gas usage is to funnel green energy dollars to oil and gas companies.

Oh, and I completely forgot allowing tens of thousands of affordable Chinese EVs into the Canadian market over the strenuous objections of Conservative premier Doug Ford.

I am in favor of this but let's not forget the fact that Carney removed the EV mandate from domestic manufacturers and the only reason the tariffs were dropped was because China responded with counter tariffs on canola.

Any of the climate gains from these green energy projects is effectively neutered by expanding oil and gas production. It makes no sense to be giving more of our money to these companies when the rest of the world is doing their best to transition away from them. In fifteen years when we have an oil pipeline and China has monopolized the EV and battery market, will we admit that we fucked up? Or will we do what the USA is doing and double down further on O&G while banning green energy projects because they threaten oil profits?

What are our currentnplans and actions then? Expanding oil and gas is a already a net negative when it comes to climate action and I honestly don't see the feds doing much else.

More ambitious than nothing? Yes absolutely

Funny how the government can do tlvery unpopular things it didn't campaign on like the surveillance bill C22, but when it comes to caring about the climate (which it did campaign on), it just isn't "viable". Just more neolib bullshit.

I read the post before the title and was prepared to come at you. QGIS doesn't get enough love for how good it actually is.

A lot of Nazis and other European facists supported the zionist project because it wpild give them a place to send the Jews.

There used to be a speed camera on this stretch of Bathurst. Doug Ford is responsible for this.