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But...I thought Harper fixed all this accountability in government stuff. So what happened, did he forget to add something, or not give it a constitutional foundation or something? Oh well, if at first you don't succeed try try again - and no, I'm pretty sure Einstein was mocking something else.

I know right? After growing up with the Science Center, 2001; A Space Odyssey and Star Trek I figured for sure I'd be living the dream in my condo overlooking Tycho by now. They'll probably hit the technological singularity a couple years after we're gone. It just comes with feeling doomed I guess.

No, I'm starting to subscribe to a more Wild In The Streets approach where we round up all the right-wingers and force them to take LSD. Naw, we just want to save the world.

I think the only sure fire way to deal with it is at the personal individual level. I've spent the last 20 years getting used to the idea we're doomed. For 30 years before that I laboured against the inevitable thinking back on all the crap I learned in high school. Yup, but I also think it's a two way street. We need a more objective population that's ready to meet our institutions part way in its shared responsibility for keeping societies shit in a more manageable pile. People have thrown out so many babies while bailing out their bathtubs...there's nothing left for them to climb on. We're also becoming less governable at the same time our institutions are less able to govern. In addition to bailing the tub we've also pulled the plug.

No it won't. Boomers are the most well adjusted generation since forever. Apparently it's because we had to grow up figuring out the stuff the world threw at us ourselves. We were out the door shortly after breakfast when Mom and Dad went to work and we were told to be home before dark. Nowadays you whiny little pampered brats can have your parents arrested for that. No offense, it probably wasn't your fault. My kids grew up having to keep an eye out for bears and the occasional wolf and cougar. Dogs usually work better than rocks btw.

We keep our food scraps in the freezer until compost pickup day. We hardly ever see them. Some 14 bears were shot hereabouts last year where people tried chasing them away. Some with rocks I imagine.

We should also be concerned about how freely people open their minds to the nonsense. The infosphere is like a modern casino - more dazzle and cacophony and the house always wins. Here, have another drink. How about a Dexedrine?

I'm always distracted by the cat videos and ships in big waves.

Enemies.

Road deactivation, creek cleaning, replanting slides. On old Interfor lands.

Einstein said the same thing about Zionist terrorists way back in the mid nineteen forties.

So are the US, Israel and anyone who imagines they have the moral or ethical background to chart the course they've taken to...fixing things.

Doesn't everyone? I was incorporated for 20 years, and tracking and planning budgets using spreadsheets 30 years ago. I was responsible for budgets totalling over half a million dollars to run 4-5 crews working out in the bush. Now I'm living the dream. Imagine that, an old lefty who owned a business and can use a spreadsheet living the dream. Does it defy everything you think you know or does it just make me more dangerous? Bwahahahaha!

No. That would be even stupider and Britain is essentially absent - it got away with their part in things. Britain certainly seems to have divested themselves of the effort. They've benefitted from the distance of time and the willingness of America to humiliate itself. Again, the Americans took democracy away from Iran. If they were serious about fixing that they should have had boots on the ground and been busy organizing the resisters by now. They should be planning an exit and rebuilding strategy with them and establishing a truth and reconciliation process to deal with crimes committed by both the Shah's and Ayatollah's regimes against Iranians.

Your misinformed view of the responsibilities involved. Without proper acknowledgement there can be no lasting reconciliation.

Not really. The point remains that it was Britain and America who set Iran on its ill fated course.

Don't forget that chance was taken away from Iran by England and America and the bloodthirsty authoritarian puppet regime they installed.

Sux to be you too does it? 👍

I could care less about you and Shady for sure.

1. As much as possible. 2. No, you're here debating it right now. 3. No, carbon taxes are mice nuts compared to the inflation driven by climate change, 4. I'm not complaining. In fact I just said I have no issue with paying more. There's no contradiction. 5. Smarten up then.

Sux to be you apparently. Meanwhile I'm living the dream and enjoying the best years of my life. 4 years cancer free now too! And I don't have to submit another FIT sample for 10 years! They're pretty sure something else will kill me by then. I have every intention of showing them otherwise! Sorry for peeing on your pancakes but smell ya later!

He? Your toaster you mean? Must be a Toshiba knock off, its a little more obvious where you learned English.

The value of the environment is important enough to me that I learned to make a living at it - after fishing and logging collapsed due to greed, lobbying and some of the most misguided fùcked up fisheries and ecosystem management on the planet, I learned how to make a good part of my living as a private contractor and consultant as an environmental monitor on things like TFL cut blocks and the development of golf courses and resorts and when managing a fishery. I was even incorporated. That's where political environmental activism led me. Nowadays I can put $300 or more a day in my pocket in ecotourism burning anywhere from 150 - 300 litres of fuel doing it. I probably pay more carbon tax in a week than this whole whiny forum put together and I've got no issue with me, and you, paying more on top of it. Retirement is imminent and I can definitely see going back in activism as a volunteer, especially of your money. 🤣

It's not everyone, but there are a lot of conspiracy gas fumes these days. 2nd hand smoke gives you cancer too don't forget. I see more than a few people I've known for 50 years now go over to the stupid side. Maybe it's like the Dark Side...it's not more powerful, it's easier.

Speaking for myself I value the environment more. You simply can't have enduring prosperity without it.