i may have strong feelings about this
Jun. 19th, 2019 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanA lot of the Canadians on my reading list are talking about this story
I call bullshit.
Because I know what I would answer if a pollster asked me the question.
I would answer, "We know the names of the people who right now are making billions piloting the industries causing climate change. We know who is funding the misinformation campaign designed to convince people that climate change isn't real and protect them from the repercussions of their actions. We know the names of the politicians and the lobbyists who are responsible for the de-funding of infrastructure that makes it harder for the rest of us to live sustainable lives *cough*Doug Ford*cough* and the ones who buy pipelines and give subsidies to oil companies while wrapping themselves in a green flag *cough*Trudeau*cough*.
Taxpayers are already paying more - in medical costs as air quality goes down, in insurance costs as flooding & fire increases, in having to pay to put fucking air conditioning I don't even want in a house that just keeps getting hotter every year. Take the money from the oil companies, strip them of every last fucking penny of company profits and use it to clean up their crap. Their shareholders and CEOs can have whatever is left when they've paid for the mess they made."
And that would be recorded as a "no".
Canadians are deeply concerned about climate change and are willing to make adjustments in their lives to fight it — but for many people, paying as much as even a monthly Netflix subscription in extra taxes is not one of them, a new poll suggests.
I call bullshit.
Because I know what I would answer if a pollster asked me the question.
I would answer, "We know the names of the people who right now are making billions piloting the industries causing climate change. We know who is funding the misinformation campaign designed to convince people that climate change isn't real and protect them from the repercussions of their actions. We know the names of the politicians and the lobbyists who are responsible for the de-funding of infrastructure that makes it harder for the rest of us to live sustainable lives *cough*Doug Ford*cough* and the ones who buy pipelines and give subsidies to oil companies while wrapping themselves in a green flag *cough*Trudeau*cough*.
Taxpayers are already paying more - in medical costs as air quality goes down, in insurance costs as flooding & fire increases, in having to pay to put fucking air conditioning I don't even want in a house that just keeps getting hotter every year. Take the money from the oil companies, strip them of every last fucking penny of company profits and use it to clean up their crap. Their shareholders and CEOs can have whatever is left when they've paid for the mess they made."
And that would be recorded as a "no".
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Date: 2019-06-20 01:00 pm (UTC)Shit's fucked, and apparently the permafrost is defrosting about 70 years earlier than they expected! Which opens up new areas for exploration! WOOOOO.