pamelabanting.bsky.social
The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
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I think #Bitumensa deserves its own entry in the DSM.
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Or it could be a kind of tourist experience—an evening at the Petroleum Club or a weekend at the lake or ocean with the oil-rich.
Not sure I’d get past the two-hour mark before trying to hitchhike out of the estate grounds in my lowly high heels.
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Absolutely. Lose-lose-lose all around.
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It won't take many students very long to figure out that such a degree is fake, the resulting career prospects extinct and a waste of money and time, and they'll just go straight from grade 12 (or 10) to Fort McMurray and other sites to work in extraction. That's what our overlords want anyway.
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“How many more citizens need to be evacuated; how many more cities and towns need to burn; how many more Canadians need to die before Ottawa gets the message and begins liberating our country and our economy from fossil fuel dependence — or should we say, captivity?”
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In the early 2000s, “Eighty per cent of [Canada Red Cross’s] work was outside Canada. Now, eighty per cent of our work is inside the country.”
Most of this new internal demand is coming from weather-related disasters, exacerbated by an ever more erratic and violent climate.
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“This is the first time I’ve seen fires in Canada survive two winters and I’ve been watching fires closely since the 1970s.
“A number of these fires started in 2023, burned through the winter … continued to grow in 2024 and then survived this winter.”
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UCP and Smith: No principles, no ethics, no backbone, no spine, no nothing.
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6. Kept that same former (superb) vehicle 20 years
7. Letters to govts; signed petitions
8. Occasional protests
9. Don’t drive around unnecessarily
10. Tried to grow garden. (Abject failure—wind).
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1. Held off buying a new vehicle for 6+ years waiting for the promised electric Honda CRV
2. All of my U courses are environmental lit
3. Started with others a national assn that nurtures and supports teaching, research and creative work inn the environmental arts
4. Haven’t flown since 2017
5. Etc
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JFC!
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www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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So...are they banning planes from flying above the state?
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That’s an all-time favourite.
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And now an additional 15,000 are displaced in the province of Saskatchewan.
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I saw some greens in the cool room labelled “Canada or the US.”Cheaty-cheaty-cheatertons.
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Excellent point. I have actually come to like the wind but I would just like to follow the simplest impulse w/o all the delay and deferral.
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Don’t mean to impose it on you and no obligation of course, just a friendly sharing. 🐾
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First time I’ve ever agreed with that guy.
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Serendipity-doo.
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David Suzuki and economist Jeff Rubin have said that "mainstream economics is a form of brain damage": www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
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Meanwhile northern Canada is engulfed in flames and 17,000 people from one province alone have had to evacuate their homes.
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I bought an EGO Power battery-operated lawn mower at CDN Tire (on sale). I mowed the entire yard, and it's a very large corner lot, and still had about 50% of the battery power left. I was tempted to get a self-propelled one but they're 20 lbs heavier, which I thought might be heavy on the turns.
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Life jackets.
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May be of particular interest to @lootina.bsky.social @elmeligisarah.bsky.social @judeisabella.bsky.social
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And a category for persons who can read and write but who are so ethically insane as to be demented.