timtakaro.bsky.social
Physician-scientist in planetary health, active optimist and father of two.
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Hmmm...what would HW Bush say about the axis of evil today?
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Yep. We can expect of this from President Chump. We have to remember that Facism has been defeated time and again. We need to get to again, again.
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Nice op-ed by Kevin Yin on Th. using Trump's trade-war shock, to get real in to our energy policies.
"Canadians have shown grit in denying Mr. Trump a tepid response – perhaps some day in the future we can show that same grit in preserving the planet." www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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How much have you been paying for dirt?
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And their is that thing called trust. Remember when Min. Freeland said no more public money for TMX? That was $20B or so ago. How much is trust worth if you're running for PM?
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And we're hiring for a new medical school, the training is different. Primary-care team-based out patient clinical training with foundations of Indigenous knowledge and planetary health. And on the coast in beautiful unceded Coast Salish territories (aka British Columbia) www.sfu.ca/medicine/con...
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www.theenergymix.com/trumps-tarif...
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Yes, immediate cost is of course a worry, but government isn't telling you about the long (REALLY LONG) term costs of waste management (>100,00 years), accidents, nuclear weapons proliferation risk, worker risks all along the nuclear chain. www.ippnwcanada.ca/nuclear-powe...
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We should sieze the moment. US wants trade war. Our biggest hammer is energy. We know the planet needs less fossil E, and we could meet this trade war challenge by thinking to the future generations, cut our fossil E production, and foil Donald Trump's war on Canada while saving the planet.
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Perhaps we should sieze the moment. US wants trade war. Our biggest hammer is energy. We know the planet needs less fossil E, and we will meet this trade war challenge by thinking to the future generations, cut our fossil E production, and foil Donald Trump's war on Canada while saving the planet.
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As a physician-scientist who spent career trying to prevent death and disease I have to ask, how many millions will die from Trump policies?
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There are also some big technical issues not covered in this excellent NO piece. Several large CO2 recovery projects are also trying to use the gas to extract more oil. This leads to massive leaks BACK INTO THE ATMOSPHERE. Then there's also those pesky earthquakes and 10,000s of drill hole leaks.
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Leaving aside the question of whether corporate profits are assured in this energy transition (and you should read the below by @brettchristophers.bsky.social as you grapple with that question), IRA's market-based approach means it subsides the consumer behavior mostly of affluent Democrats.
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So far, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an idea that doesn't work. Transport and storage systems leak, sometimes catastrophically yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/11/the-...
Yet oil and gas industry wants us to think CCS is a solution. NOT www.npr.org/2023/05/21/1...
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Yes! And please help us translate this rational message for Canadians, Naomi. We have a tendency to follow many bad directions from our southern neighbours, and with Poilievre sounding more Trumpian every day, we need a stronger defense up north as well.
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If you have those values, then you can't be neutral on nukes since a-d is violated in any cradle-to-grave analysis. Please get off the fence! Examine evidence on International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War-Canada website for example.
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Come clean on your nuclear power policy. Nutrality, by CCL is support for an industry with high cradle to grave carbon costs, dangerous weapons proliferation potential, and deadly radiation threats from waste that has no safe place. Nuke power only survives with massive subsidies. No solution
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Yes, better for them to just be honest, i.e., we have no intention to achieve net 0, our goal is to sell off all the soon to be stranded assets, make money and avoid any future liability for harming people and the planet.