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DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
i dont think thats unusual either for provincial legislatures

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DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
big big galaxy brain take here

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lau-fossil-fuels-help-us-and-the-environment#comments

quote:

The term “clean energy” is generally used to refer to energy from certain sources, like wind, solar and hydro.

But what about fossil fuels? Does the use of fossil fuels make the environment cleaner or dirtier? The answer depends on who you ask.

If you ask federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna (who recently posted and since deleted an online video saying, “We’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it”), the answer might well be: FOSSIL FUELS ARE BAD, FOSSIL FUELS ARE BAD, FOSSIL FUELS ARE BAD.

But people who give the matter some thought might have a greater appreciation for how fossil fuels have made the environment cleaner and safer for humans. Indeed, affordable sources of modern energy, including from fossil fuels, are essential to the standards of living and environmental cleanliness enjoyed by just about everybody in the developed world.

One example of fossil fuel use that is often maligned for causing environmental damage is the internal combustion engine. But far from increasing pollution, the invention and widespread use of automobiles nearly a century ago significantly cleaned cities by ridding the streets of horses and manure that attracted flies and disease.

Importantly, thanks to technological improvements, the air in major Canadian cities has actually become cleaner over the past four decades even as the number of cars on the road went way up. To be sure, there could be some environmental benefits from people switching to electric vehicles. However, history shows that the rise of gas-powered automobiles cleaned cities while improving the quality of life for ordinary people.

Another example of fossil fuels allegedly dirtying the environment: plastic products such as plastic bags, plastic straws, and plastic packaging. But consider the plastic grocery bag. People use these bags to pick up after their dogs and to line their garbage bins, which makes the environment cleaner. Plus, they are a helpful way to carry groceries, which itself is a good thing.

Disposable plastic bags also protect people from hazardous bacteria in the environment. By contrast, studies find that coliform bacteria is often detected in reusable grocery bags, which are often not washed frequently enough. Similarly to plastic bags, plastic food wrap and plastic packaging also help keep food cleaner – as well as fresher and tastier.

The examples of plastic products making the world cleaner are endless.

Plastic window screens keep homes clean from insects. Mops, brooms, and vacuum cleaners are made in part by plastic. A more obscure example of plastic products improving hygiene was recently highlighted on the economics blog Cafe Hayek: a plastic device called “Splash Hog” that keeps men cleaner by reducing the splash-back in urinals.

On a larger scale, fossil fuels have had a profound positive environmental impact. As author Alex Epstein has written, “It is only thanks to cheap, plentiful, reliable energy that we live in an environment where the water we drink and the food we eat will not make us sick” and where we are more resilient to an often hostile climate.

Indeed, economic development fuelled in large part by fossil fuels has contributed to a 98% decline in the past century in the global mortality rate from extreme weather events.

The evidence suggests that, far from being an environmental hazard, fossil fuel use has made the environment cleaner and safer for humans.

linoleum floors
Mar 25, 2012

Please. Let me tell you all about how you're all idiots. I am of superior intellect here. Go suck some dicks. You have all fucking stupid opinions. This is my fucking opinion.
Lmfao

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

guaranteed whatever boomer shithead wrote this article has every piece of furniture in their apartment covered in a thin layer of teflon

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
He's an oil and gas shill
http://www.affordableenergy.ca/matthew_lau

Tochiazuma
Feb 16, 2007

Does throwing all my trash into my neighbour's yard make things less clean? It depends on who you ask

How can cutting down rainforests be bad for the environment, when it gets rid of all those nasty bugs and birds that poop on your head?

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

NEXT STOP The Economist

Alizee
Mar 2, 2006

"Heaven"

Lol that reads like a 13 year old student forming an argumentative opinion because the teacher said someone in the class had to argue for fossil fuel.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


RBC posted:

NEXT STOP The Economist the green party

RBC
Nov 23, 2007

IM STILL SPENDING MONEY FROM 1888

Sage Grimm posted:

You're right but Ontario is not coming back until Oct 28, more than a month later than the normal return on Sept 6. It's very much within the narrative since the federal elections are happening in-between those two dates.

Doug just wants to make sure he gets more vacation time than the teachers. Oh the tough life of being an MPP.

Sage Grimm
Feb 18, 2013

Let's go explorin' little dude!

DariusLikewise posted:

i dont think thats unusual either for provincial legislatures

I got curious and looked at the other province's sessional calendars to see if there's some commonality. BC is basically off from beginning of June to beginning of October consistently while Alberta is only from beginning of August to middle of October (though 2018 had them start vacation mid-June). Ontario's legislature has been consistent about returning that week in September, too.

And this is Doug we're talking about. :colbert:

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

I heard this was the longest break in like 25 years, yeah.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



The Alberta NDP are currently filibustering the new labour bill that would cut wages of youth and gently caress over anyone who banks overtime. Sixteen hours of it.

They may have lost the election, but drat if they aren't still fighting.

Hodgepodge
Jan 29, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 215 days!

THC posted:

add Terry Glavin to the list of stupid old white men who think the G-word is too harsh a term to put on what Canada does to indigenous people

https://twitter.com/TerryGlavin/status/1136318386051272704

it's a multipartisan consensus! praise be!

honestly, it complements our international business reputation for making union leaders disappear

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
canada, low key operator

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

where is big joe mufferaw now, in our hour of need

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

JKay had another take where he skewered the hypocrisy of "SJWs" who claim Canada is both a genocidal state, and an international beacon of fairness and antiracism simultaneously

you know those kooky people, who definitely exist and are real

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/1136364204984754176
https://twitter.com/Nicole_Cliffe/status/1136369085644546049

:yikes:

apatheticman
May 13, 2003

Wedge Regret

Fashionable Jorts posted:

The Alberta NDP are currently filibustering the new labour bill that would cut wages of youth and gently caress over anyone who banks overtime. Sixteen hours of it.

They may have lost the election, but drat if they aren't still fighting.

https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1136610426475597824?s=20

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this gently caress

autism ZX spectrum
Feb 8, 2007

by Lowtax
Fun Shoe
gently caress! I can't find the ad now but way back when Ford rolled out the model A or T, there were ads about how the leaky total-loss oiling system was a benefit because oil kept the dirt roads from being dusty.

Fuckin also just lol

quote:

fossil fuels, are essential to the standards of living and environmental cleanliness enjoyed by just about everybody in the developed world.[..]

Super glad we live in a plastic bubble dome where things that happen elsewhere don't effect us. Once the garbage leaves Canada it just disappears into a void, probably just turns into a puff of clean air honestly.

That line about clean air in major cities too, nevermind the perpetually burning forests it's FINE

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Maybe what the planet and the people truly wanted is a splash hog all along....

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



apatheticman posted:

https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1136610426475597824?s=20

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this gently caress

HAhahahahahaha. Holy poo poo that is one hell of a spin.

Alizee
Mar 2, 2006

"Heaven"
This guy is amazing I just had a facebook ad for him:

https://robcarbone.com/?fbclid=IwAR2vZ4jG_j5boibyYMIy-6QlBPmOYFEfiPLVJ1iTNozwbQprbwB7bDcYZKs

The best thing is he's running as "The Leader of the Republican Party of Canada" which sounds like he's going to be a big time fiscal conservative and then you look at his platform and he's pie in the sky socialist without even knowing it.

It's a good laugh.

DynamicSloth
Jul 30, 2006

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

quote:

PETS


Fund 100% veterinary visits and vaccines for cats and dogs.  Moving into the future, we plan to cover all surgical expenses. 



Also no tax increases.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://twitter.com/simonhoupt/status/1136740401463943168?s=19

CanCon!

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you




So what they're saying is Canadians like tv shows with autistic lead males?

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


if global warming is reall when why is it snowing in the middle of the day on june 7th

checmate libtards

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
lmao, what the gently caress?

it's 25° here

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
its thirty-one(31) degrees here and gently caress everyone

James Baud
May 24, 2015

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

DariusLikewise posted:

its thirty-one(31) degrees here and gently caress everyone

Fahrenheit?

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
kelvin

autism ZX spectrum
Feb 8, 2007

by Lowtax
Fun Shoe
Fuckin' hitting 36 here in Winnipeg and we've only started June

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


autism ZX spectrum posted:

Fuckin' hitting 36 here in Winnipeg and we've only started June
I could mail you some snow, but with Canada Post it'll be winter by the time it gets from Alberta to Manitoba anyways.

Fashionable Jorts
Jan 18, 2010

Maybe if I'm busy it could keep me from you



Powershift posted:

I could mail you some snow, but with Canada Post it'll be winter by the time it gets from Alberta to Manitoba anyways.



Where are you? I'm in Edmonton, and while quite chilly and rainy, no snow.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


Fashionable Jorts posted:

Where are you? I'm in Edmonton, and while quite chilly and rainy, no snow.

Red deer, it stopped snowing around noon, there is still a little bit on the grass

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Last week it was 31 degrees in Edmonton and it was like 40 degrees indoors at my work. If there's a real heatwave there's a good possibility I'll die

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?

gently caress i wish

Virtual Russian
Sep 15, 2008

Walked by a video game store in KW today that had Qanon stuff up in the window. Glad to see the american brainworms are doing well here.

DariusLikewise
Oct 4, 2008

You wore that on Halloween?
:canada:

https://twitter.com/connorsouthard/status/1137229942608072705?s=21

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bring back old gbs
Feb 28, 2007

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
You just know Robbie would be drunk as gently caress, red faced, middle of the crowd, calling the warriors bumbaclots tonight

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