There's always money for the military. But climate?
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Just like provinces and municipalities.
“No money for education, healthcare, or bike lanes.”
Also, “We’re spending countless tens of millions to widen a road so that people can sit in traffic for 30 seconds less than before while making it less safe for all other road users! Vote for us again, plz.”
We’re also giving billions in corporate subsidies. We finance their development and they get to keep the rewards.
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It’s not like it’s an existential threat or anything. Besides, we can just use the military to shoot at the climate until it cooperates. /s
Fire “fighters” are now using semi-automatic rifles to put out forest fires by shooting at the flames.
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They want you to use public transport but increase prices while the service degrade
They increase the price and decrease the frequency or have trouble maintaining their infrastructure because of government financial cuts to said public transport services.
Get your head outta your butt.
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You missed an important word for the part about traffic
… can sit in traffic for 30 seconds less than before (temporarily) …
Until induced demand kicks in, then you’ll be with the other idle motorists for an extra 4 minutes! LOL
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We’re also giving billions in corporate subsidies. We finance their development and they get to keep the rewards.
Frustratingly, this is how corporations do business just about anywhere in the world. Why bother subsidizing at all? Either make it publicly owned or tell them that they are on their own. Viable businesses will succeed without handouts.
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There's always money for the military. But climate?
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Canada's National Observer (www.nationalobserver.com)
The problem with climate is we would need to stop doing mass immigration from low emission countries which raises the cost of borrowing. We would need to cut off imports from emerging markets, so the cost of goods would rise and we would have higher interest rates, crashing our housing bubble.
We are entrenched with climate change because our borrowing cost is tied to cheap goods produced using coal by wage slaves in areas with the lowest worker rights.
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There's always money for the military. But climate?
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Canada's National Observer (www.nationalobserver.com)
Merge them. Create the climate corps and allocate federal funding to that branch of military operation, that’s how you actually get funding, and it makes sense because climate shift is a security threat as much as anything else. Also, given how shit is turning south of the border, this is the most comfortable I’ve ever been with more military spending. I’m just saying this doesn’t have to be an either-or dichotomy.
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There's always money for the military. But climate?
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Canada's National Observer (www.nationalobserver.com)
Nope, we’re all going to hell, on Earth.
Oops, turns out the SMOC, the Antarctic counterpart to the AMOC… yeah looks like it broke and flipped about a decade ago.
So, that means the global thermohaline circulation system is in fact currently collapsing, heat transfer flows in the worlds oceans are going to do increasingly unpredictable wild shit, which will cause increasingly unpredictable large scale weather patterns…
Oh! And because this fucks up the salinity and nutrient concentrations of uh, ocean water basically everywhere…
I guess the Dolphins will soon be boarding their ships along to ‘So long and thanks for all the fish!’.
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There's always money for the military. But climate?
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Canada's National Observer (www.nationalobserver.com)
Always? We’ve been underfunding our military for generations. This new spending is badly needed catch up to get us functional.
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There's always money for the military. But climate?
For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail. And yet, Canada’s military spending will hit two per cent of GDP this year, and will reach a stratospheric five per cent within 10 years.
Canada's National Observer (www.nationalobserver.com)
We’re all gonna burn and be overwhelmed by millions upon millions of climate refugees.
