“Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries” – NYT
What are we going to do about it? Let’s pillory the people with the only plan capable of decarbonizing the economy in time, says Canadian MainStream[Corporate]Media.
“Naomi Klein and the usual cadre of left-wing reliables want the NDP to ..” – National Post
Looking at the issue with a longer view, you’ll come to realize Engler’s opinion must win over the ad hominem attacks on Leap supporters.
Across Canada for the past three days the right wing media has been attacking the NDP for passing a resolution agreeing to “discuss” over the next two years the Leap Manifesto, a common sense document that calls for taking global warming seriously, actually doing what is necessary to prevent our planet from being cooked and trying to create a better world while we attempt to ensure our collective survival.
“These ideas will never form any part of our policy,” Notley said Monday. “They are naive, they are ill-informed, and they are tone-deaf.” – Notley in CBC
“Her Environment Minister, Shannon Phillips, called the document “ungenerous” and “short-sighted.” – Glib and Male
Short-sighted? Seriously!? What sort of environment minister thinks planning for a quick end to fossil fuel use is “short-sighted”? (One that is tone deaf, and forced to speak in short quips to minimize partisan twisting, I suppose.) Anyone with a long view realizes if we don’t build carbon-free systems right now, this decade, we’ve little chance of maintaining a climate responsible for supporting our civilization and countless species.
Lewis said jobs in the green economy can be created faster and in greater numbers than those in oil and gas.
“I think we as a Canadian family, we’re slipping into these deeply divisive ways of talking about these eternal tensions instead of focusing on what we can build together,” he said.
“And I think we could build new jobs in new industries for 10 years, put hundreds of thousands of people back to work across the country, before we need to have this … divisive debate about pipelines.”
Trusty Sun:
[…] many members of the federal NDP would like to adopt Naomi Klein’s Leap Manifesto at their convention.
This raises the question of whether many of them have read it. The Leap Manifesto, Klein’s eleventh-hour plunge into the climate change debate says, among other things,…
Avi Lewis on the ‘ideological battle’ over the Leap Manifesto
Avi Lewis on the climate crisis, Naomi Klein, and how he didn’t mean to ‘blow up the NDP convention’
The media is clearly making this about the people leading the ideas in Leap, not whether they are sound ideas or likely to be effective at creating the quick changes required to save our civilization. It’s all about Notley, Klein and Lewis, instead of carbon pollution, pipelines, economics, and our climate’s chances.
Wouldn’t you rather the media talk about the issue?
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What if Notley is right?
The NDP needs places like Alberta and Quebec to survive. The party may be forced into a local minima of fossil fuel status quo for regional stability purposes in order to just survive as an political entity in a 2 or 3-party system. The willingness of Albertans to ignore reality might force the NDP into a stalemate on this issue or worse.
Obviously it’s not necessary (we can see this problem and react accordingly) but I’m starting to be convinced that the party itself has a fundamental flaw (not the least of which is, one of our communication apparatuses has been taken over by a secret cabal that may or may not be in league with the fossil fuel industry. As of yet the Secret Cabal hasn’t entered this quagmire, perhaps there is still time to resolve it before they, and the broader fossil fuel interests do in earnest).