Canadian friends:
While climate change impacts are most pressingly felt, this is a very good time to review Canada's commitments to adaptation, & share them widely.
If you read this, you'll see that the priority is reactive & local: informing citizens of risks, building data, shoring up protective infrastructure, conserving carbon sinks. What's *missing*? A top-down commitment to changing energy systems.
It's not enough. Inform your circles & push your MPs for more.
The green belt *and* the huge surge in lobbies holding sway in urban planning, healthcare, & education, thanks to Ford introducing US-style privatization into what were our inherited gifts of public systems. The absolute *shame* of throwing away what other countries covet.
There is so much we need to do.
And so little economically-stressed Canadians *can* do, while fighting the impact on their home fronts.
Hope you're staying as sane as possible between the rock & the hard place. 🫂
I left in 2018, expressing alarm at the rise of emboldened racism & xenophobia in my communities thanks to the US president & increasingly Republicanized Conservative rhetoric.
At the time, folks insisted something like that US disaster could never happen in Canada. But that dogwhistling, Buck-a-beer, walking pile of corruption got elected later that same year.
& the reelection? The way the other candidates didn't take this seriously enough? The demoralized turnout?
Heartbreaking.
@MLClark
people are getting very angry, since he promised not to do this. i never believed him but many did.
there's nothing worse than a bold faced liar. he's just like tfg in that regard, corrupt lying bigot.
we do our best to avoid getting assassination fantasies going. assass needs gone though👎🏼