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guess who's sucking Big Oil's dick hard enough to actively allow a genocide

This is what the Republicans are trying to do for the whole country. State news like in North Korea, China, Iran, Russia, Cuba, etc…

A New Democrat MP told the Commons on Tuesday that oil companies should pay for the damages caused by wildfires.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, ON) said it was wrong for citizens to pay for firefighting costs when oil companies were “burning the planet.”

“Who is going to pay the cost for the huge damages that are being done to our planet right now, the billions in damages to communities and provinces from these unprecedented wildfires?” asked Angus.

In 2022, the federal government set aside $256 million over five years to help provinces and territories buy firefighting equipment. 

“Who is going to fund this?” asked Angus. [...]

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By Uriel Araujo

In an underreported but hugely important development, the United States is now claiming a vast portion of the ocean floor, twice the size of California. According to the U.S. Department of State (DOS) Media Note released on December 19, the area “is approximately one million square kilometers spread across seven regions” and “holds many resources.”

For years, climate-concerned people have assiduously used some sort of climate footprint "calculator" to figure out how many tons of carbon dioxide they emit annually because of their lifestyle; and, accordingly, how much blame they shoulder personally for climate change. What they probably don't know is that the idea of a carbon footprint calculator was first invented by the geniuses at British Petroleum — not to encourage conservation, but to focus consumers' attention on their own emissions and distract their attention from the incomparably greater emissions of the industry itself.

Yet asking how you, individually, can calculate and reduce your carbon footprint is very much asking the wrong question. I don't want to know what I can do to reduce my estimated 0.00000005 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. I want to know what Big Oil is going to do to phase out the 73 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that they empower — which was 37,190,000,000 metric tons of CO2 in 2021. Of course, the fossil fuel industry would rather send me nosing into the compost in my backyard, than sniffing under the closed doors of political dealmaking that props up the hegemony of the fossil fuel economy.

Please share this video beyond Tumblr, too.

We've shared links to plenty of evidence documenting all this before.

But the human brain is a funny thing. Humans haven't spent most of their time on this planet learning and sharing knowledge via the careful measuring, collection and evaluation of facts and evidence. What we need is a story.

The above video tells the story, plain and simple. Some people will tune it out: it's no fun hearing you've been lied to. But for others, hopefully, it'll be an eye-opener.

Ban congressional lobbying NOW

.....PNW allies wake up

This will be not even 30 minutes away from where I live.

I hope to see you at the front lines.

"The energy giant’s plan to accomplish this hinges on increasing the GTN pipeline’s flow with an additional 150 million cubic feet of gas per day. Increased flow is correlated with more frequent and dangerous leaks, though TC Energy’s proposal includes neither repairs nor updates to GTN’s 61-year-old pipes.

Instead, the expansion will install new turbines and software updates at three compression stations along the pipeline route. Each of these compressor stations is located in or near residential areas, with the Athol station in particular situated in the middle of a residential neighborhood just a few miles from the popular Silverwood Theme Park and its 800,000 seasonal visitors. Research on compressor stations’ public health impact paints a grim picture, demonstrating higher rates of mortality and negative health outcomes for those living nearby. These harms scale proportionally with increased emissions, a natural result of TC Energy’s proposed expansion."

The “enormously powerful Atlas Network, a global network of more than 500 member think tanks advocating for “free market” policies.”

Started by Antony Fisher and his Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK. It went worldwide with assistance from the Koch family and Rupert Murdoch, along with funding from big oil companies.

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