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05-21-2024 , 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by lozen
So you are saying Justin Trudeau is not lying when he indicates his climate policies will reduce forest fires? Or is this what your calling an objective truth?
Oh this is just you playing stupid word games. All the substance here is true here:
1) It is true that climate change is real and significant
2) It is true that climate change is making forest fires worse
3) It is true that we have a moral obligation to try and reduce our effects on climate change
4) It is true that a carbon pricing scheme like ours is an effective mechanism to reduce CO2
5) It is true that Poilievre is absconding from this obligation and has no plan to do anything.

You have a very silly strawman that Canada alone can't signle-handedly fix global warming - duh - and so sure your strawman is false in the sense that Canada acting alone won't make any significant change on forest fires, but back down here in reality where the context is the global community all doing their part together the substance is all true.

Unlike Poilievre's filthy lie politicizing deaths due to overdoses that you have seemingly moved on from.
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05-21-2024 , 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Sure, but I didn't comment on that because it's not a discussion that really interests me. Of course one small country (in terms of population) going it alone on almost any initiative is going to have a negligible impact worldwide, which is why the idea is that countries work together. It's just a repackaging of the "what difference does it make if I do X, I'm only one person" argument used to avoid doing something a person doesnt want to because it inconveniences them. That doesn't mean there can't still be a discussion about whether everyone doing X is beneficial, of course, but not doing X because one person/country can't make a difference is simply a copout.

I've got all sorts of issues with JT and will be looking to put my vote elsewhere next year, but the last thing I'm worried about is him making a comment that another politican wants to "watch the country burn", especially when it's targeted at the king of hyperbolic sound bites. I don't like it, but JT already lost my vote long ago.
In fact the one person should not do "it" at all if it doesn't benefict him directly and clearly.

But when it's *other countries* that clearly told you "**** you", it's truly insane
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05-21-2024 , 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Montrealcorp
Exactly so how is energy consumption will go down even (which is impossible) the first world countries won’t expand their energy consumption ?
How t f emerging/poor countries can develop without massive increase of energy consumption ?
Good luck with that …
There is no way with natural gas, emission will go lower but I will concede it will increase more slowly .
But it ain’t a solution long term .
there are significant investments in lower energy needs for building and whatnot
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05-22-2024 , 07:19 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Ya totally it must be some insane conspiracy theory, or, uh, I guess it could just be a super boring market response, its 50:50 which amirite!
Damn, an unnamed source says they tried, nevermind then. The 7-10 billion $ bill is forgiven!
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05-22-2024 , 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Oh this is just you playing stupid word games. All the substance here is true here:
1) It is true that climate change is real and significant
2) It is true that climate change is making forest fires worse
3) It is true that we have a moral obligation to try and reduce our effects on climate change
4) It is true that a carbon pricing scheme like ours is an effective mechanism to reduce CO2
5) It is true that Poilievre is absconding from this obligation and has no plan to do anything.
WACKO!
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05-22-2024 , 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
WACKO!
I'm not convinced about #4 but the remainder seem pretty reasonable to me (although admittedly I don't know Poilievre's platform quite well enough to say for sure he has NO plan). With a strong response like yours, I assume you object to most or all of them - is there any point in that list you can agree with?
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05-22-2024 , 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
I'm not convinced about #4 but the remainder seem pretty reasonable to me (although admittedly I don't know Poilievre's platform quite well enough to say for sure he has NO plan). With a strong response like yours, I assume you object to most or all of them - is there any point in that list you can agree with?
Not really a strong response because.

1. It is true Uke is a WACKO.
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05-23-2024 , 04:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
I'm not convinced about #4 but the remainder seem pretty reasonable to me (although admittedly I don't know Poilievre's platform quite well enough to say for sure he has NO plan). With a strong response like yours, I assume you object to most or all of them - is there any point in that list you can agree with?
Do you think climate change is bad for Canada specifically, in the sense that on net the nation is worse off if it is a tad warmer?

Do you think Canadian effects on worldwide climate change are meaningful?

Do you accept a lot of people don't think countries have any moral responsibility of any kind toward non citizens, especially if non residents? and that's the premise itself is incredibly controversial, and for many people the idea itself that a country sacrifices for others with no direct gain from it is tantamout to treason, to a betrayal of the reason for the existence of the country, which for many is exclusively the furthering of the interests of the people making up that country?
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05-23-2024 , 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
Oh this is just you playing stupid word games. All the substance here is true here:
1) It is true that climate change is real and significant Scientists and Great tell us it is I believe them
2) It is true that climate change is making forest fires worse It contributes but not the sole cause
3) It is true that we have a moral obligation to try and reduce our effects on climate change
4) It is true that a carbon pricing scheme like ours is an effective mechanism to reduce CO2
5) It is true that Poilievre is absconding from this obligation and has no plan to do anything.

You have a very silly strawman that Canada alone can't signle-handedly fix global warming - duh - and so sure your strawman is false in the sense that Canada acting alone won't make any significant change on forest fires, but back down here in reality where the context is the global community all doing their part together the substance is all true.

Unlike Poilievre's filthy lie politicizing deaths due to overdoses that you have seemingly moved on from.
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3) It is true that we have a moral obligation to try and reduce our effects on climate change
I understand that some folks feel that way . I think the right moral decision is to look at each green agenda and ask yourself is it Moral . Take electric cars. WE ship the coal we dig up by train and than barge to China to power the factories that make the components that go into an electric car. As well the minerals required for the batteries come from mining in South America and Africa were there is little to no regard for the environment and add in that children and slaves mine these minerals as well. How is that Moral?
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4) It is true that a carbon pricing scheme like ours is an effective mechanism to reduce CO2
Well it hasn't reduced emissions at all in Canada
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5) It is true that Poilievre is absconding from this obligation and has no plan to do anything
This is a lie Pierre's plan is to produce more LNG to ship to countries using coal currently



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Originally Posted by Luciom
Do you think climate change is bad for Canada specifically, in the sense that on net the nation is worse off if it is a tad warmer?

Do you think Canadian effects on worldwide climate change are meaningful?

Do you accept a lot of people don't think countries have any moral responsibility of any kind toward non citizens, especially if non residents? and that's the premise itself is incredibly controversial, and for many people the idea itself that a country sacrifices for others with no direct gain from it is tantamout to treason, to a betrayal of the reason for the existence of the country, which for many is exclusively the furthering of the interests of the people making up that country?
Even the PBO of Canada and experts have said it will have no effect. Until you get China, India , Brazil, Russia or the world on board all we can do is adapt
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05-23-2024 , 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by lozen
WE ship the coal we dig up by train and than barge to China to power the factories that make the components that go into an electric car.
While Canada exports a tiny drop in the bucket of thermal coal, the good news is at least one brave political party is going to ban it. If you care about this issue, you should support them. Regardless, energy is needed to power the factories for either an electric car or an ICE car, so it is laughable to use this as an argument against electric cars.

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Well it hasn't reduced emissions at all in Canada
This is a lie Pierre's plan is to produce more LNG to ship to countries using coal currently
This is funny. Zero credit given to carbon pricing effects, but hilariously high credit given to the PUMP BABY PUMP plan. Of course independent analysis predicts that combined industrial and consumer carbon taxes will reduce emissions by 50%, but don't let the evidence effect your decision making. As to the PUMP BABY PUMP plan, well, uh, why don't YOU provide the evidence you certainly must have for how much this will reduce Canada's emissions by?
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05-23-2024 , 12:32 PM
Great article on the embarassing anti-carbon tax plan: the conservatives might just have to bring it back anyways!

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magaz...ve-carbon-tax/

The EU is way ahead of Canada on one of the biggest policies I've advocated for: trade tarrifs against freeriders who don't act on climate change. This is the pressure needed to make sure more and more countries are doing their part. So if Poilievre jetison's Canada's responsibility and goes for the do-nothing plan, it could quickly find itself facing massive tarrifs from the EU and others and just have to come up with a new plan anyways. As it should.
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05-23-2024 , 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
While Canada exports a tiny drop in the bucket of thermal coal, the good news is at least one brave political party is going to ban it. If you care about this issue, you should support them. Regardless, energy is needed to power the factories for either an electric car or an ICE car, so it is laughable to use this as an argument against electric cars.

This is funny. Zero credit given to carbon pricing effects, but hilariously high credit given to the PUMP BABY PUMP plan. Of course independent analysis predicts that combined industrial and consumer carbon taxes will reduce emissions by 50%, but don't let the evidence effect your decision making. As to the PUMP BABY PUMP plan, well, uh, why don't YOU provide the evidence you certainly must have for how much this will reduce Canada's emissions by?
You know as well as I do that Justin ending coal exports is a flat out lie . Its like planting a billion trees.

In Canada under Justin Trudeau every year we have seen increased coal exports so you tell me he will just say Jan 1 2030 no more coal ? Please

Of course you ignore the moral question as you really do not care if a child works 16 hours a day in the worst environmental conditions so we can drive electric cars
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05-23-2024 , 12:57 PM
How horrible of a person do you have to be to sit at your keyboard and type out that your forum nemesis doesn't care about child labour? What is wrong with you? I'm 100% in support of ensuring EV supply chains are morally responsible. The way you weaponize this issue to try and justify your anti-doing anything about climate change is bad, but the way you make it personal is just disgusting. Shame on you.

Your points on coal exports are less insulting, but just as stupid. Short term ebbs and flows in the post-ukraine invasion spike in coal demand say little about the practicality of ending thermal coal in 2030. There is no reason not to believe it. In fact, the detailed plans are due out later this year. But regardless, your party isn't planning to lift a finger!!!!!! You can have doubts about whether Canada gets truly to 0 under the liberals precisely by 2030 or not (doubts based on nothing but FUD), but your party isn't going to do a thing. Stop being a hypocrite.

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05-23-2024 , 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
How horrible of a person do you have to be to sit at your keyboard and type out that your forum nemesis doesn't care about child labour? What is wrong with you? I'm 100% in support of ensuring EV supply chains are morally responsible. The way you weaponize this issue to try and justify your anti-doing anything about climate change is bad, but the way you make it personal is just disgusting. Shame on you.

Your points on coal exports are less insulting, but just as stupid. Short term ebbs and flows in the post-ukraine invasion spike in coal demand say little about the practicality of ending thermal coal in 2030. There is no reason not to believe it. In fact, the detailed plans are due out later this year. But regardless, your party isn't planning to lift a finger!!!!!! You can have doubts about whether Canada gets truly to 0 under the liberals precisely by 2030 or not (doubts based on nothing but FUD), but your party isn't going to do a thing. Stop being a hypocrite.
The same horrible person that says if I vote for Pierre I do not really care about climate change . Typical Leftist elitist what's good for him is disgusting if someone else reverses the same argument on him

Oh and coal exports were rising before Ukraine . NO my party is going to drill drill drill baby and export all that LNG if they can just like Trump did and what was the one country that actually lowered emissions in the G&? yes the USA because of the switch from coal to Natural Gas
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05-23-2024 , 03:54 PM
You are not good at whataboutisms and should stop trying to do them. You support doing nothing to fight climate change (I suppose I should say nothing "real" since obviously PUMP BABY PUMP isn't a real plan). But I don't support doing nothing to fight child labour. I support using the full power of big government to do everything it can to reign it in. So to sit back and suggest I don't care about child labour is just inept, even if you ignore how disgusting the insult attempt is.

Canada already mostly got rid of coal for electricity generation, which is great, you are just confusing timelines as recent gains from the US on this front came after similar gains in Canada. At the end of the day a single indisputable fact remains: The liberals are pledging to remove ALL thermal coal exports by 2030. The conservatives don't. If this is an issue you pretend to care about, there is a single party for you to vote for.
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05-23-2024 , 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
The liberals are pledging to remove ALL thermal coal exports by 2030. The conservatives don't. If this is an issue you pretend to care about, there is a single party for you to vote for.
Why not the green party? They have much more ambitious goals. If climate change is your biggest political concern, you would be a hypocrite not to vote for them.
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05-23-2024 , 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by uke_master
You are not good at whataboutisms and should stop trying to do them. You support doing nothing to fight climate change (I suppose I should say nothing "real" since obviously PUMP BABY PUMP isn't a real plan). But I don't support doing nothing to fight child labour. I support using the full power of big government to do everything it can to reign it in. So to sit back and suggest I don't care about child labour is just inept, even if you ignore how disgusting the insult attempt is.

Canada already mostly got rid of coal for electricity generation, which is great, you are just confusing timelines as recent gains from the US on this front came after similar gains in Canada. At the end of the day a single indisputable fact remains: The liberals are pledging to remove ALL thermal coal exports by 2030. The conservatives don't. If this is an issue you pretend to care about, there is a single party for you to vote for.
Not if I believe the liberals are lying which has been the case for many of their policies

Im just a realist and know that unless China, India and a few other countries are part of the solution Id rather keep CDN jobs and a robust economy than the liberal vision
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05-23-2024 , 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Why not the green party? They have much more ambitious goals. If climate change is your biggest political concern, you would be a hypocrite not to vote for them.
Practicality. The Green Party has effectively zero chance of becoming in power. And some of their ideas has been historically unrealistic. I have voted green before, and think they do an important part of making sure that the liberals push hard on environmental issues for fear of losing votes to the green party.

Not that anyone believes you are interested in any form of conversation beyond some imagined gotcha you have in your head, so do skip forward to that now.
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05-23-2024 , 06:18 PM
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If this is an issue you pretend to care about, there is a single party for you to vote for
No gotcha, just that there isn't a single party to vote for if that's what you care about.
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05-23-2024 , 06:26 PM
Ya you can go ahead and imagine all future statements have an asterisk that talks about the irrelevant green party that is extremely unlikely to get into power and doesn't need to be mentioned every time. Hope that helps.
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05-23-2024 , 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
Not really a strong response because.

1. It is true Uke is a WACKO.
That doesn't answer the question. Do you not have an answer?

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Originally Posted by Luciom
Do you think climate change is bad for Canada specifically, in the sense that on net the nation is worse off if it is a tad warmer?
I don't believe that climate change is limited to "the nation...is a tad bit warmer".

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Originally Posted by Luciom
Do you think Canadian effects on worldwide climate change are meaningful?
Already answered:

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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
Of course one small country (in terms of population) going it alone on almost any initiative is going to have a negligible impact worldwide, which is why the idea is that countries work together. It's just a repackaging of the "what difference does it make if I do X, I'm only one person" argument used to avoid doing something a person doesnt want to because it inconveniences them. That doesn't mean there can't still be a discussion about whether everyone doing X is beneficial, of course, but not doing X because one person/country can't make a difference is simply a copout.
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Originally Posted by Luciom
Do you accept a lot of people don't think countries have any moral responsibility of any kind toward non citizens, especially if non residents? and that's the premise itself is incredibly controversial, and for many people the idea itself that a country sacrifices for others with no direct gain from it is tantamout to treason, to a betrayal of the reason for the existence of the country, which for many is exclusively the furthering of the interests of the people making up that country?
I think we have enough threads where you've espoused your extreme libertarian views; we don't need to start yet another debate of them here.
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05-23-2024 , 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
That doesn't answer the question. Do you not have an answer?
An answer to what? I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a WACKO zealot.

1. It is true that climate related deaths are at an all time low and continue to decline, thanks fossil fuels!

2. It is true that over 3 BILLION people use less energy than your refrigerator. The MORAL thing to do would be "pump baby pump" and embrace all forms of energy

3. It is true that most climate change zealots are proud atheist that believe mother nature will eventually punish humans for existing and before the industrial revolution the planet was a clean safe place. It wasn't, thanks fossil fuels!

4. It is true that for the past 60 years every doomsday climate change prediction has been catrosphically incorrect.

5. It is true the earth is greener and has more trees now.

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05-23-2024 , 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
An answer to what?
The really simple question I asked you two posts ago, yesterday. Did you hit your head last night?

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I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a WACKO zealot.
Cool story bro, no one's asking you to.

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Originally Posted by Shifty86
1. It is true that...
Well, for some reason you couldn't answer the question directly, but you've managed to do so indirectly. No, apparently you can't agree with any of those points. LOL.
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05-24-2024 , 01:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Shifty86
It is true that most climate change zealots are proud atheist that believe mother nature will eventually punish humans for existing and before the industrial revolution the planet was a clean safe place.
lol well you have a vivid imagination, that’s for sure!
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05-24-2024 , 04:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett


I think we have enough threads where you've espoused your extreme libertarian views; we don't need to start yet another debate of them here.
Not sure why you think denying you have a moral obligation to foreigners is a libertarian view, nevermind an extreme one. Rational selfishness isn't a libertarian exclusive.
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