The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL.
It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto.
But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet.
My latest.

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Title: Lake Towada (1952)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

www.japan.travel/en/destinati... #ShinHanga #Art #HasuiKawase #Showa #Autumn #LakeTowada #Aomori #Akita #Tohoku #Japan

It's 2025, and here's where we're at: #Ubisoft is afraid to make a Civil War-era video game where you'd play as a former slave fighting enemies including the Ku Klux Klan, for fear of racist right-wing dipshittery.

"Too political in a country too unstable, to make it short"

#USPoli

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving 🦃 this weekend and 1 in 4 Canadian families will not be able to celebrate it because they cannot afford enough food. A quarter of the country is starving under @mark-carney.bsky.social.

Title: Kanago Village, Ibaraki (1954)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

www.azureroad.io/organic-rice... #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #Autumn #HasuiKawase #RiceHarvest #Ibaraki #Japan

Please write in some negative feedback here in this weird government AI boosterism survey. 👇

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic. We recoil from what feels fake. That’s why human creativity matters (...) AI doesn’t dream. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t make art. It aggregates it.”

I don't see how the Conservatives can message against this since wealthy Canadians are part of their base that they pander to (along with the Liberals). We need a stronger NDP.

#cdnpoli

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Carney's no dictator. He works for us. He was hired to do a job, based on commitments he made to us. Now, this worker is doing the opposite of what he was hired to do, over and over again. Like any employer, it's our responsibility to get him back on track before the situation becomes unsalvageable.

The oil fields are making record profits, and that money is being siphoned out of Alberta & Canada at an accelerating rate. AB's oil industry scored $250 bln in 2022, while slashing re-investment to 1/3 of 2014 levels. They know the end is coming, and want to leave us holding the bag. No thanks.

If you've read Carney's book "Value(s)", you'll know he's been advocating for a proactive role for governments in the transition away from fossil fuels - incentives, taxes, building charging networks etc - for a long time. It's only since the election that he's tossed his principles out the window.

1.) We already have a better vision in renewables; 2.) a majority of people want to see action on climate, and 3.) it is essential that we call out politicians when they break their promises. Public pressure on Carney has already proven effective; see how quickly he re-instated WAGE, for instance.

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
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Title: Signal (1962)

Artist: Kiyoshi Saito

www.dw.com/en/crunch-ti... #ShinHanga #Art #SosakuHanga #Showa #KiyoshiSaito #Japan #Mood

"What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It’s equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. We simply cannot be that stupid"

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #KeystoneXL #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #USPoli

ICYMI from 2011: the #KeystoneXL pipeline Carney & Trump are talking about resurrecting would be a "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet"

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#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #USPoli

Reminder: the ICJ recently affirmed that if a state "permits or encourages fossil fuel expansion that violates the climate commitments required to avoid 1.5°C warming, it may be violating international law"

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KeystoneXL #KXL #NoPipelines

Just like in the years before it was finally cancelled in 2021, Carney & Trump working to resurrect the #KeystoneXL pipeline would draw protests, pushback and a pile of lawsuits.

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

Bonus for the strong of stomach: Danielle Smith on how to talk Trump's "love language".

"Let me tell you how Canada being able to provide you raw materials or critical minerals or energy and natural gas allows you to have energy dominance in the world"

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #KeystoneXL #ElbowsUp

The source "emphasized that Carney brought up the cancelled pipeline", and that #KeystoneXL "was just one example of the ways #Canada could work more closely with the U.S."

This is literally the opposite of what Carney promised in the election.

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

"Carney raised the prospect of reviving the #KeystoneXL pipeline project (...) as part of a larger pitch on linking energy cooperation"

Not long ago, Carney ran a whole election campaign on the idea of #Canada becoming *less* dependent on the US.

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

Now we know why Trump was so flattering in his comments on Carney after their meeting in Washington: Carney was secretly selling us out. Again.

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #KeystoneXL #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

Most of us thought we'd seen the last of #KeystoneXL -- but after all these years, Carney & Trump want to bring this monster back to life. As a refresher, here are 5 reasons Canadians were glad to see the end of Keystone XL back in 2021:

#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp

This fucking guy.