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Someone who is undecided on if I'm too worried about the climate crisis... or not worried enough.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In many ways Mark Carney is proving to be an excellent Prime Minister for Canada at a critical time in our nation’s history. But he also might be the smartest man in the world to act really stupidly about #ClimateChange at a critical time in world history.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No ego here, just inconvenient truths you should perhaps feel cynical about. Building LNG terminals and freighters means we are locked in for decades. If you think there's still a business case (or that emissions don't matter) that's your prerogative, but it's definitely not an interim solution.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You are free to take the politicians at their word. I admire your faith. That does not change the basic reality of financing and building multi-billion dollar export infrastructure.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can't wishcast new LNG infrastructure into existence. It takes years to build and decades to pay off. Let's be real - any investment we make in LNG now isn't for the interim. It's functionally only possible for the long haul.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
Every single word of this article seems custom designed to make me more furious than the last.
cbc.ca
Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News
An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier? My latest: sethdklein.substack.com/p/is-prime-m...
sethdklein.substack.com
Is Prime Minister Carney a climate denier?
Unpacking “the new climate denialism”
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This feels relevant:
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
~75% of electrification economic today and ~90% technically possible, but only 21% actually electrified. We have a lot of good work to do, so long as we recognize the potential.
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In a massive dataset of over 10,000 cities around the world, the strongest association with distance travelled by cycling was not climate, topography, or even infrastructure - it was *gasoline prices* doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Figure 3 from "Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure" by Adam Millard-Balla, Monisha Reginalda, Yasmina Yusufa, and Christopher Bian. The figure shows factors associated with distance travelled by cycling and walking, arranged in order of effect size. For cycling, the largest effects are gasoline prices, GDP per capita, rail service, steep terrain (negative effect), minimum temperature (negative effect), population density, and bicycle lanes. For walking, the largest effects are population density, gasoline prices, bicycle lanes, and maximum temp (negative effect).

Fig. 3 Caption: Factors influencing active travel. Each coefficient represents the impact of a one-SD change in each variable on the share of kilometers traveled by cycling (A) and walking (B). For each city-level variable such as density, the model estimates a separate coefficient for each country. The shaded area shows the distribution of country-level coefficients; for density, for example, the effect on walking ranges from about zero to ~0.11, excluding one outlier. For country-level variables such as gasoline prices, there is only a single coefficient. Variables are ordered by the size of their absolute effect in the median country—density and gasoline prices have the greatest impact on walking and gasoline prices and income (GDP per capita) on cycling. The minimum temperature variable shows the marginal effect of both the linear and squared terms.One might expect climate to have a major impact on active travel, and many studies highlight the impact of weather on daily and seasonal travel decisions (9, 25). However, in our model, there is a negligible association between precipitation and the mode shares of walking and cycling. Hotter temperatures decrease walking but have no effect on travel by bicycle. Colder temperatures only reduce walking and cycling in colder climates (SI Appendix for further Discussion). At the national level, gasoline price has the largest association with the share of travel by active modes. A one-SD increase in the price per liter (equivalent to US $0.40) is associated with a ~1.0 percentage point increase in walking and a ~0.5 percentage point increase in cycling—notable given that the mode share of cycling across the entire dataset is just ~0.9%. These findings echo a large volume of research that shows how vehicle travel declines in line with rising fuel prices (26). Gasoline prices also have an indirect effect in promoting denser, mixed-use development (27).
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Amusing to see a parallel opening quote from Andrew Coyne's column today: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: We may look back on this as the week Canada began to take its fate into its own hands
Mark Carney’s pivot to Europe comes as the old world order is cracking, and a new one is forming
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who's going to invest in what I assume is a landlocked Port of Churchill? Is this supposed to be a map of Canada..? Does a Canadian run this account?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In China, robots which are also solar panels, clean the other solar panels. Original post
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Jane Jacobs wrote in “Cities and the Wealth of Nations” that “Economic life develops by grace of innovating; it expands by grace of import-replacement.” With the challenge of the American trade war, It’s time for some serious import-replacement in every part of our lives. Buy local!
lloydalter.substack.com
Reading Jane Jacobs on import replacement in a time of tariffs
Her thesis has been ignored by economists, but her time has come.
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Maureen “FusionFellow” @fusionfellow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bill McKibben talks about where we are from a climate reality check today. It is good to know the facts, even when they are hard to deal with. #CLIMATEREALITY @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/reality-in...
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Reality intrudes
We can’t actually keep on like this
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
People don't like the tellers of inconvenient truths, but that doesn't make them less truthful.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Lest he be accused of kneecapping Alberta, I would expect Carney, famous author of Value(s), intends to build both.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The planet is on fire. We are facing mega-droughts, food shortages, record floods. But as the terrifying new El Nino begins to rumble the Canadian government have cut climate scientists and sidelined the Net Zero advisors. We are flying blind into the fire storm. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Flying Blind Into the Storm
Just a few weeks ago, the Trump regime was threatening us with a tariff war over the smoke billowing from the burning boreal forest.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Also the Globe & Mail: we should accommodate more bitumen!
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Globe editorial: The national interest in a new bitumen pipeline must be accommodated
The law itself is relatively clear, but the Liberals’ political rhetoric has muddied the waters
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Climate Denial Didn’t Disappear. It Moved From The Diagnosis To The Treatment" by @ingmar.wsocial.eu for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...
forbes.com
Climate Denial Didn’t Disappear. It Moved From The Diagnosis To The Treatment
Why do leaders retreat as climate disasters worsen? Research on illness and denial explains why governments accept the diagnosis but reject the treatment science demands.
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Evan Boyce @evanboyce.ca · 14/08/2026
incredible, the court basically did the dril drunk driving tweet
[75]       There is much that is wrong with this reasoning. It minimizes the purpose of the legislation, in effect trivializing it by characterizing it as saving some drivers a few minutes rather than reducing traffic congestion, which may in turn result in a wide range of positive effects. At the same time, it inflates the negative effects of removing the bicycle lanes, talking of injuries and deaths that will occur only if the bicyclists choose to ride on the roads that have no bicycle lanes – a situation that obtains on roads throughout the province. Having so characterized the purpose and effects of the legislation, the application judge rendered the outcome inevitable on a simple proportionality standard.drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
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Adrienne Tanner @adriennetanner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trying not to be mean-spirited, but the Liberals small climate adaptation announcement in the face of this year's horrific fires rang hollow. Seems like a pittance compared to the resources that will be sunk into a new pipeline and will make matters worse. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/12/o...
nationalobserver.com
Carney can’t buy climate cover with pocket change
These sprinklings of cash will no doubt be welcome, but they seem a laughable pittance when you consider the government’s top priority: fast-tracking construction of another pipeline from the Alberta ...
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
SUBWAYS SUBWAYS SUBWAYS to keep us out of sight and mind as Doug Ford's driver chauffeurs him around on the ground. If only we let him have his private jet to cruise over traffic through the sky; perhaps him flying above would allow the good subterranean folks of Toronto to ascend to the surface. 😔
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Daniel Reynolds @akareynolds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/08/2026
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Okanagan fires offer a glimpse of a worsening wildfire crisis
Experts say Canadian wildfires are part of a much larger problem connected to the burning of fossil fuels
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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Oops! Hey, @MarkJCarney, where's that clean grid you keep talking about? 2020 = 84% clean 2026 = 77% clean Just wait until BC builds more LNG, Alberta powers data centres with gas, and Ontario ramps up gas instead of building renewables. How low can we go?
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The direct cause might be unknown, but the increase in size and intensity of these fires is due to climate change.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/08/2026
As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels www.desmog.com/2026/08/03/a...
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As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There's an Austria-Australia joke here somewhere.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thanks! I see that Canada is really #cookingwithgas
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Is there data and a graph like this showing Canadian emissions?
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Inevitably, just desserts will come to us.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Solar panel roof shades that power an info screen showing the next vehicle arrival.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“This parking lot is the hub, it’s the heart of the community. It provides everybody an opportunity to partake in everything that’s here,” 

- Steve Bland, 2021
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friendly reminder that these things aren't impacted by closing the Strait of Hormuz so maybe, just maybe, we should implement them to avoid being impacted by future conflicts: -Solar panels -Wind turbines -Battery storage -Electric vehicles -Bicycles -Natural fertilizers -Electric heat pumps
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/07/2026
Apple's greatest accomplishment isn't technological, it's *psychological*. Apple managed to convince millions of people that buying products from a multi-trillion dollar corporation with close ties to both Trump and Xi makes them members of an oppressed religious minority. 42/
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...
thenarwhal.ca
Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal
It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Quite the quote: “I honestly think that it is the Alberta way, to ignore any problems,” Stephen Carter, a political strategist leading one pro-Canada group, told me one morning... “As long as we’ve got money coming into our pockets — the dollar dollar bills — we don’t seem to give a s—t.”
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
They've clearly been referring to this reporting, but it's obvious they don't understand they're comparing two different stats. Just sad, really. There's a huge difference between individual Canadians buying EVs and the Feds pledging to buy multiple pipelines. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
Canada to spend up to $200B on wind, solar, and energy storage: Report
As many as 350,000 direct and indirect full-time jobs will be created, researchers say.
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You didn't actually fact check anything, though..?
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mere millions pledged for renewables, with billions planned for fossil fuels - and no indication that this will change despite claims of clean electrification.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a fun little coincidence I noticed: Every Republican Congressmember loudly blaming Canada's forest management policies for this year's unprecedented wildfires (and ignoring climate change) is a massive recipient of fossil fuel funding. Receipts👇
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well expect now to see people reverse-engineer themselves into climate denial as a result of their support for our PM. It's the only way for them to reconcile what he's doing & still support his actions. His pro-pipeline messaging during the wildfires serves as a way to desensitize his supporters.
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
god damn 34% of y'all are EXTREMELY susceptible to propaganda
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legendsfollower.bsky.social @legendsfollower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Very ironic quote - an understanding of the exact opposite of Smith's position is now increasingly true: “But I think there's a growing understanding that we're not gonna be able to hit net zero targets with just wind and solar and intermittent renewables..."
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
climateintegrity.org
The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Same experience today, but now because of the smoke. Apologies for mentioning this, though, since worrying about climate change is a Trudeau-era fad that we’re supposed to have moved on from.
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I’m always reluctant to directly attribute any one weather event to climate change. But Canada’s current fossil-fuel boosterism does hit a bit harder while considering whether we have to keep our 6-year-old home from the baseball camp he’s been excited about, because of potential record heat.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14/07/2026
Dr. Samantha Green, a Toronto family physician who researches heat, says mandated air conditioning in daycares is "urgently" needed. “We know extremely hot days are expected to triple in Toronto in the coming decades. We need to protect our most vulnerable. That includes children.” #onpoli
thestar.com
She works in an air conditioned office while her kids struggle with the heat. Why aren’t we doing more to cool Toronto daycares?
As temperatures soar, children in daycares across the city are enduring temperatures far above what physicians say is healthy.
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