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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

They are actively doing this again right at this moment with climate change, only this time the impacts will be felt for centuries & measured in billions of deaths. No one seems to care about that either.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

stake in that debate. I'm going to have to leave that to people that are better at sorting through scum than I am. As far as I'm concerned both should be held accountable.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

I know lots of people like to get caught up in who's the bigger scumbag arguments, the anti-vaxers that deliberately lied & led to vast numbers of death & disablement or the mainstream that that deliberately lied & led to vast numbers of death & disablement. I don't really have a

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

And lets be really, really clear here. It wasn't just Biden. There was a whole host of "mainstream" medical & scientific authorities that went along with this deliberate & deadly disinformation. They should be held accountable.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

Politicians of all stripes DGAF about truth or even the lives of their constituents & that needs to stop.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

What people should really be asking is why did Biden announce the pandemic over during this exact time period.
www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-c...

Biden says COVID-19 pandemic is "over" in U.S.

In an interview on "60 Minutes," the president said, "We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lotta work on it. ... But the pandemic is over."

www.cbsnews.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

What the facts show is that this was due to COVID.

apnews.com/article/fact...

Vaccines didn’t cause increase in deaths and life insurance payouts

False. The claim wrongly attempts to tie COVID-19 vaccines to a surge in deaths in the U.S. in 2021.

apnews.com

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

So these anti-vaxers are getting a lot of people with the claim that the vaccine caused this rise, the fact's however don't show that.

Image of anti-vax network claiming "During a live debate, Dr. Pierre Kory asked one simple question that stopped his opponents cold.

“If no one’s dying from the vaccine, why did life-insurance executives report a 40% spike in deaths among the healthiest Americans in late 2021?”

No answer. Just silence."

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 12h

Just want to bring something over here from the bad place. These anti-vaxers, like they have from the beginning are lying using facts. It's easy to point out the lies, but we should also face the facts. Here's a thread I made there.

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Alberta Wilderness Association @albertawilderness.bsky.social · 17h

There’s no proven way to treat toxic oil sands wastewater adequately, so why is a provincial committee OK with dumping it into a major river?

We, alongside Indigenous leaders and other enviro + health groups reject this committee's plan and demand better.

albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r...
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Joint News Release: Indigenous, environment and health groups reject inadequate industry-led recommendations for treat-and-release of tailings - Alberta Wilderness Association

On the two-year anniversary of Imperial Oil’s hidden toxic tailings leaks coming to light, communities and advocates downstream from the oil sands are pushing back against weak tailings treatment reco...

albertawilderness.ca

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

Hold political operatives accountable to bargaining away your children's future for their short term weak willed gains. There won't be another chance.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

The moment we steadfastly refuse to accept it, their power begins to crumble. TBH, I don't have a lot of hope for our capacities, but that doesn't change anything.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

They are open & willing to throw away your children's future. There is no reasoning with them. This has been tried & tried by every reputable body on earth. The only resistance remaining is your compliance with the deliberate & systematic destruction of your children's future.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

What we’re witnessing is not ignorance, it’s a calculated defense of power by those who would rather destroy the future than surrender their dominance. This includes MANY political groups including ones that label themselves as "progressive".

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

They understand that this decade will decide the fate of their industry, and they are responding not with responsibility, but with desperation. Open corruption, disinformation, and a turn toward authoritarian and fascist control.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

this. This has been well & extensively communicated to them by just about every reputable science body on earth. Much of the science behind this CAME from the fossil fuel industry. This industry KNOWS their time has come. They've known that for over a decade.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 16h

We are currently in what many climate scientists call the critical decade. This is a decade (2020–2030) where the choices we make will lock in either a apocalyptic future for our children or a disrupted, but more optimistic future. Fossil fuel producers & their fascist/political operatives know

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 17h

You should document any official coms & what you posted.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just had a post of mine removed by the NHS for saying ‘COVID is a predominantly airborne virus’.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

about absorbing your country. Kenney obviously doesn't care about those things though.

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

climate change didn't exist, this may be a smart move, but that is not a real world. Also it's generally dangerous to make far more powerful fascist empires reliant on the resources of your much weaker country, especially when that fascist regime is already openly fantasizing

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Kenney is right about one thing, the US shale oil market is bottoming out. Of course this could & should lead the US to rapidly deploy renewable energy & shift to EV's, but Kenney would prefer to try to have them limp along with AB bitumen instead. In a world where

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

This is what for profit healthcare looks like. We can see the results in the US easily. The fact that Albertan's want to have their loved ones fed into a profit mill when they are at their weakest is mind-blowing to me.

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

From the DM’s…

Meanwhile, in the land of privately owned, for profit care…

Allegedly long term care homes have stopped using overnight adult diapers and are only using daytime ones because they’re cheaper.

Even though they allegedly compromise care.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 1d

If the world wasn't dealing with real problems, it would probably make a really interesting documentary.