And who will pay for it all? Because up to now it's fallen entirely upon ther world's taxpayers and NOT the people that lied about it and profited enormously from it #SueBigOil
#BigOil's comeuppance is an inevitable thing. How many more #Jasper*s it will take I couldn't tell you but it IS inevitable. If any car company KNOWINGLY sells killer cars with non-functional seatbelts or that leak carbon monoxide into its passengers then THEY. GOTTA. PAY.
Simple: we made the world hotter. Turned our forests into increasingly effective wildfire fuel which means more towns & cities are in increasingly grave danger. Means we breathe more (and more toxic) smoke because of it. Longer we avoid addressing it, worse it gets. /13 #Jasper#Climate
Canada (yes even Alberta) has a strong majority supporting #ClimateAction but we don't act like a majority. We'll have to if we want our leaders to work for our interests rather than their already very rich friends. How many more #Jaspers do YOU want to see, let alone pay for? /16 #Jasper
Beware of politicians cynically co-opting things like #JasperStrong, especially if their only climate "policy" is #AxeTheTax. It's like #ThoughtsAndPrayers from NRA-funded US politicians after mass-shootings. Ask instead how they'll turn the heat down. /17
Always known/preventable but there was just too much $ to be made by our richest people, industries & their gov lackeys. That's who needs to pay for it all if, like me, you don't think it should be the taxpayer, who's paid the ENTIRE bill thus far. /18 #Jasper#SueBigOil#abpoli#cdnpoli#Wildfire
The Climate equivalent of one of Canada's supposed top newspapers advising lung cancer victims to not quit smoking, just get more exercise. Disastrously bad stuff. The best that can be said about it is it's behind a paywall so at least nobody will read it /19 #abpoli#cdnpoli#wildfire
Speaking of walking #Climate disasters you really have to perform #Olympic-level somersaults not to mention Climate at all in this article but David Staples is indeed a man who can perform somersaults in his longterm role of NOT covering the greatest challenge of our time /20
With nary a #ThoughtsAndPrayers for the victims of #Jasper & a hearty wink/nod to the Great #CarbonCapture Boondoggle, it's abundantly clear Canada's largely foreign-owned #BigOil companies don't care how much of Canada burns. We'll have to stop them. You get that right? /22
Life comes at you pretty fast these days but when Alberta has a week like last week it's clear that if we don't stop & take stock it'll pass with the typical partisan food fights & nothing learned. That's not good enough /1 #yyc#abpoli
Anybody saying "this is just summer" about all that #smoke & #wildfire is either misinforming or disinforming you, difference being the degree to which they KNOW what they're saying is UNTRUE. Neither is useful in deterring future #Jasper-like disasters or worse /2 #Climate#ExtremeHeat
The week that saw the utter destruction of ~ 1/3 of the town of #Jasper & over 1.3 million Calgarians breathing #VeryHighRisk#AirQuality started with Sunday July 21, 2024 being the hottest day in recorded history. The record didn't last a single day. /3
We keep breaking all the wrong kinds of records. This week was shocking to live through it but nobody that values science, data & facts should be surprised. Scientists warned us for a long time. It's here now. It's no longer academic & should never've been "political." /4
Anybody can claim all the #Wildfires we now experience are just "what happens in summer" so long as they're either oblivious to the available data or outright denying it. On average, 2.5 million hectares burn in Canada each year. Last year we hit 18.4 /6 https://globalnews.ca/news/10141857/canada-wildfires-side-effects/
Anybody can claim ALL THAT SMOKE 1.3 million Calgarians now experience is just "what happens in summer" so long as they're either oblivious to the available data or outright denying it. In the 80s & 90s #YYC used to average just 12 hrs of #smoke a year. Last year we hit ~ 500 /7
It's not just that we're breathing WAY MORE SMOKE these days, we're also breathing WAY MORE TOXIC SMOKE, which we know because we monitor #AirQuality & where we've always rated it from 1-10 our last few years have forced us to create a right-off-the-charts rating called "10+" /8