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Leigh's avatar

Not only is LisaYoung a “straight shooter” (sorry, couldn’t resist) with the facts, she has a wicked sense of humour!

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Reynold R's avatar

I'd like to suggest that our first priority should be to transition Danielle, et. al., to the opposition benches.

Once the NDP regains control we can put more funding into public schools and write a proper curriculum. When the population is decently educated it will understand climate science. Of course the reeducation project will take more time than we can afford, so in the mean time the new government may need to stomp on a few toes.

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Don Ray's avatar

OMG, Hilarious, brilliant insight and research! Only 1/2 Albertans believe climate change caused by people! One could go further and say that corporations driven by greed cause climate change!!!!!

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Phil Courterelle's avatar

The western archetype as a metaphor fails miserably here. A bar fight in a western is a melee - disorganized, random, chaotic.

Federalism is none of that. Think more Rocky than Desperado, where a plucky underdog works her way up to a title fight with the Champ!

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Phil Courterelle's avatar

Wow! 50% of Albertans accept that climate change is due to human activity??

I'm sooo proud of my fellow Albertans!

I swore it was less than 10%!!!

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Greg Hooper's avatar

They don't call her Denial Smith for nothin'!

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Deborah Hopkins's avatar

Excellent overview!

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Ingamarie's avatar

It's a conflict that needs to happen....and I'm heartened that it's finally here. Alberta's oil and boom busts may be the stuff of legend, but the facts about fossil fuel extraction, shipping, upgrading, refining and burning have been known for some time now. David Schindler told us at least a decade ago about how we have rules to monitor emissions like methane on the books...we just never do a very credible job on the ground.

Denial is easier if you can fudge, smudge the data. It's too bad that burning ancient carbon is going to lead to hot house earth...but thems the facts boys.

Shoot em up all you want The Great Mother doesn't give a hot da..... about your penchant for violence. She's coming for all of us unless we grow up, learn to read the data and connect the dots. And four more years of Danielle won't make our current reality go away....or get easier to tackle.

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