what is it about canadian politicians that they so resemble ostriches, who put their heads in the sand when threatened with a difficult situation? the sand these politicians are burying their heads in is the tar sands and they are not going to come out of it looking clean and spiffy.
the only practical solution to canada's contribution in opposing the encroaching devastation of climate change (and the tar sands are the biggest single canadian contributor to our terrible, sasquatch-sized footprint) is the complete cessation of alberta's mining of these tar sands.
so why are we spending treasure to increase the destructive flow of bitumen from this terrible foreign-controlled site that we will someday soon have to start trying to distance ourselves from? this is not about jobs, pipelines don't add significant jobs for the size of the capital investment, this is unneeded and unwanted infrastructure that is running against the stream of not only history but also science, and it is purely based on the inability of a privileged segment of the population to admit that their privilege is based on the destruction of our future, all our futures, their own included. getting off the tar sands will require a lot of new green energy infrastructure, which really is much more labor-intense and will result in many more good, technical as well as construction jobs, than any pipeline proposal.
the oligarchs do not speak for us, the great majority of humans, nor for the other life of earth. this is the sickest short-sided stupidity at precisely the moment in the history of the exploitation of earth by modern humans when better ways are actually finally clear to us. we know what path we have to take. why do we let shortsighted, selfish and callous sociopaths continue to dominate the large-scale efforts of man? if they keep on, you will soon be saying goodbye and good riddance to capitalism in all its forms, the good with the bad. times are going to quickly overtake us. while we fiddle with corrupt political and capital systems, trimming the edges and trying to make them look like something they are not and never have been, the planet burns.
