There’s nothing prettier than a swath of land stripped bare with the barren limestone exposed, the pristine reflections of the sun on the undisturbed tailing ponds, the piles of black mud with lines of tire tracks running through it, with the silence broken only by intermittent booms to keep the birds from landing in the toxic sludge.
Or how about the oil derricks in the north, placed delicately in the middle of the boreal forest, within a clearcut square of stripped down below the soil, creating a beautiful bare patch 100m in every direction from the derricks.
How many farmers will this piss off? Like seriously. I’m south of the border and any farmer that likes making money LOVES renting out a tiny portion of their land to turbine companies for all that sweet passive income.
The year is 6000BCE. Time traveling Danielle Smith rallies against planting farms to preserve natural beauty. Insists hunting is a much more practical food source and will continue to serve humanity’s needs indefinitely.
Does it? You still might starve, but at least you spend your time wandering beautiful wilds and practicing your hunting skills. Depending on which biome you’re in you might even have considerable leisure time.
If you think about it, so many of our videogames are like hunting and gathering. I think we evolved to like that lifestyle. Few people enjoy smacking plants to get seeds off all day, on the other hand. Or getting dicked around by a local noble.
You’ve got to get the Hamas leaders out of Gaza, otherwise any ceasefire won’t last because the problem will still be there. You’ve got to dismantle the operation of terrorist attacks. You’ve got to have a new Palestinian Authority and governments in place. You have got to give the Palestinian people a political horizon to a better future and two-state solution and, crucially, you’ve got to release all of the hostages and do that very quickly.
Edit: this was a reading check test and you guys failed. Don’t comment without reading the article. What I wrote above was a word for word quote directly by Lord Cameron found in this very article.
You can’t do any of that anymore. It’s not even possible. What are they going to have an election? With what infrastructure. And guess who they’re probably going to vote for? Israelis have been bombing and murdering them for the last few months. You think they’re voting for moderate peaceful leaders? No they’re going to very understandably be voting for people who can them bring them Israeli blood. Which is half the reason Netanyahu did it in the first place.
You're half right, but only half. These things need the Israeli right wing to be out of the picture, not just Hamas. It's those people that gave rise to Hamas and other terrorist/resistance organizations. You're like someone saying "we need the IRA to stop their actions so Irish people can have rights" during the Troubles.
and the province has shifted away from coal at a far faster rate than expected.
Because solar and wind are dirt cheap compared to traditional energy generation methods. Using renewable energy is, put bluntly, just good business sense. If you have plentiful sun and/or wind and you’re not making use of solar or wind generation then you are pissing away good money opportunities.
But if there is one thing the conservatives love more than resisting change, it’s sitting around doing nothing while they beg the federal government for more money so they can subsidize their failure of a fossil fuel sector. That entire province just evokes the mental image of repeatedly slamming your foot on a rake and complaining how much it hurts each time.
That’s such a great depiction of Alberta’s politics it’s both funny and tragic at the same time. Alberta (and SK for that matter) could be leading the nation in non-hydro renewables if they let the market decide, but for some reason the O&G industry needs to continue to be propped up. If only they could see the opportunity staring them in the face.
Solar and wind are dirty cheap until it’s night time and they is no… wind. It’s not a predictable source of energy and it’s often associated with gas to compensate that.
Well, this one takes it one lever higher: calling an Israeli jew, descendent of holocaust survivors, “antisemite” just because he disagrees with the actions of his government …
I don’t know how that is in other parts of the world but this is quite a normal occurrence in Germany nowadays. A lot of Israeli Jews living in Germany have been labeled by white Germans as antisemitic for criticising the occupation.
They do have a way out - instead of pretending to have achieved holiness on this subject, just not perpetuate the problem. Boring and mundane, yeah.
But this is actually the hardest thing to do for people of all European (in very general sense) cultures, even USSR had that “догнать и перегнать”, Europeans simply can’t admit that the best they can do in some cases is to not make matters worse. They always need to claim the crown.
She is such a fucking plague on this country. If Canada was a dictatorship like all of here followers believe, she would have been rounded up and thrown in a camp last year.
It’s amazing that none of them seem to know dictatorships do more than get vocal critics downvoted or maybe fired, which is what they seem the think the Jews Globalists are doing to them, and which proves they’re in a dictatorship.
That would mean admitting that you can’t possibly be the most virtuous participant in a discourse spawned by your state killing 6 mln people. Not a very German or European thing to do, just letting go of that feeling of being the beacon of morality.
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