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I'm a dad that cares about my kids & the world I am leaving them. Clean air enthusiasts. Pro human rights, pro precautionary principle. He/Him
Joined November 2011
It's pretty wild that atheists created satirical things like the flying spaghetti monster & the church of the sub genius as a protests against the harms & inequalities of religion, the far right has preachers to promote hate. Tells you a lot.
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Day Zero isnβt fiction. Itβs when your cityβs taps run dry. Climate change makes it more likely every year.
IRAN: Tehran is facing an acute water emergency. Historic drought and low rainfall have depleted reservoirs, prompting warnings from President Masoud Pezeshkian that the capital may need to be relocated. The Amir Kabir Dam holds only 8β―% of its capacity, leaving less than two
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Exactly two years ago, the University of Ottawa suspended me from my medical residency training in public health because of social media posts in support of Palestinian human rights. They framed my social media posts as βunprofessionalβ. The irony being that I studied the impacts
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A series of e-mails between the head of the Alberta Energy Regulator, a coal-mining company and the Energy Ministerβs office about a mine application has raised questions about the independence of the provinceβs energy watchdog https://t.co/T67fiASki9
#ableg #cdnpoli
theglobeandmail.com
Regulatorβs CEO sought βinputβ from Energy Ministerβs chief of staff on a motion to cancel hearings about a proposed mine
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βBennett Jones is handling most of the Australian coal lawsuits against #UCP government. It was Kenney who invited foreign speculators to mine the Rockies in 2020 with promises he could not keep. He now works as a senior adviser for Bennett Jones #abpoli
https://t.co/VRIgjQ0aws
thetyee.ca
Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
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Ahhh here's another way. In the entire history of life on this planet not one species has ever at any time sickened their way to health. Ever. We are no exception.
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I have been working on this on the side as a hobby project. It is a Pixel Art "Resident Evil" type game taking place inside and around a pharma corporation (MediTech Pharma). The story is quite grim and the farther you go the darker it gets, even grotesque. It is about the
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This photo says everything!
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
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Not sure how many different ways I can say this. Viruses are not our friends. We do not have symbiotic relationships with them.
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function, peddle that magic based nonsense.
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infections is not backed by any observational science & is firmly in the land of magic peddling. It's frankly pathetic to see people that should be able to rationalize their way out of this magical thinking because of what I hope is a fundamental understand of immune system
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Not sure I have the energy to fight any more BS, but the idea that if we have two groups of people, lets say group a that is infected by a virus every 5 years & group b that is infected by that very same virus every 10 years. That on average group a will have less severe
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Hypocrisy is far harder to deal with than denial.
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One recent example, but this kind of thing goes back decades & is the primary reason that there hasn't been any real movement on climate change globally. https://t.co/v5lKwYkFWg
desmog.com
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
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Canada isnβt simply responding to global demand, itβs investing political capital to make sure that demand doesnβt go away.
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undermine any efforts at a transition in developing nations. It's a is a moral outsourcing loop. Fossil-fuel companies engineer that ongoing βneed.β It collapses the difference between being caught in a system and sustaining one.
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A lot of "centrist" views about Canada's role in selling fossil fuels are that they are only supplying a product that someone else would if we didn't & that there is a "need". Of course this all ignores the reality that fossil fuel companies systematically
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Witch of course doesn't exist given the scale. It's a lot like the vax & forget stance of COVID. Perpetrates lots of harm while still feeling good.
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