Bob Rae preaches sustainable development of oilsands

beaker

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Pick up any history book and start there.

I've been through a couple and don't remember any where there was a reference to sustainability in reference to the Bolsheviks. Was there one in particular that you came across and found particularly revealing, or incriminating, or whatever it is that would make someone say that the Bolshies tried sustainability and look where it got them?
 

taxslave

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I'll let you know.

By the way, there is no problem with resource depletion as long as we have a working, alternative method to substitute for that resource. Of course, if we're out of oil in the next couple of generations, not only is the environment ****ed - but all the money in the world won't buy us technological advancement.

Thats rich. You figure we can just stop replanting what we log and turn the land into subdivisions just because there are alternatives to lumber for building?
That will go over real well with your greenie buddies. Us loggers want to keep things growing so our kids and their kids can have good paying jobs.
 

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"Sustainability is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are doing it. Those that are doing it are doing it badly."
 

petros

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Thats rich. You figure we can just stop replanting what we log and turn the land into subdivisions just because there are alternatives to lumber for building?
That will go over real well with your greenie buddies. Us loggers want to keep things growing so our kids and their kids can have good paying jobs.
All those trees that were planted and hugged back in the late 80's are now ready for harvest.

Harvest is my favourite time of year.
 

mentalfloss

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I never knew so many people could get their knickers in a knot over one word.
 

beaker

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That's a given at this point.


One of the requests made by the site admin in its suggestion for behaviour of posters on Canadian Content Forums is to kindly refrain from making one liner posts. Which would lead me to understand that there are definite comprehension issues with a couple of the posters anyway. I'm just curious, do you two think that red herrings and ad homs are just really neat new tricks?

If you really can't address the issues being raised, for whatever reason, why do you feel it necessary to post.
 

petros

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I never knew so many people could get their knickers in a knot over one word.
When you grow up and figure out that sustainable developement and Bolshevism are one in the same perhaps you'll understand why.

One of the requests made by the site admin in its suggestion for behaviour of posters on Canadian Content Forums is to kindly refrain from making one liner posts. Which would lead me to understand that there are definite comprehension issues with a couple of the posters anyway. I'm just curious, do you two think that red herrings and ad homs are just really neat new tricks?

If you really can't address the issues being raised, for whatever reason, why do you feel it necessary to post.
Sure you may be able to sound out big words like dextromethorphan after take a phonetics class but do you know what it means?
 

CDNBear

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I never knew so many people could get their knickers in a knot over one word.
Tell me about it...

NDP love sustainable development.
Libs love sustainable development.
Alberta PCs love sustainable development.

Just poor ol' Harpie is left out.
What a fine example thereof, lol.

I'm just curious, do you two think that red herrings and ad homs are just really neat new tricks?
There's nothing new about the content of your posts.
 

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Thats rich. You figure we can just stop replanting what we log and turn the land into subdivisions just because there are alternatives to lumber for building?
That will go over real well with your greenie buddies. Us loggers want to keep things growing so our kids and their kids can have good paying jobs.

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right....."
 

CDNBear

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One of the requests made by the site admin in its suggestion for behaviour of posters on Canadian Content Forums is to kindly refrain from making one liner posts. Which would lead me to understand that there are definite comprehension issues with a couple of the posters anyway. I'm just curious, do you two think that red herrings and ad homs are just really neat new tricks?

If you really can't address the issues being raised, for whatever reason, why do you feel it necessary to post.
I'm sure we'll see you follow up the following...

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm all right....."

... with similar questions and accusations eh?

How the in Hell could you **** that up too? Everyone else knows it's "okay" not all right.
 

petros

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I'm proud to be bourgeois and I hope you Bolsheviks can out run a .280 short because this **** isn't going to happen on my watch.
 

Cabbagesandking

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I've been through a couple and don't remember any where there was a reference to sustainability in reference to the Bolsheviks. Was there one in particular that you came across and found particularly revealing, or incriminating, or whatever it is that would make someone say that the Bolshies tried sustainability and look where it got them?
You seem not to know of Gulags and show trials. Of bullet manufacturing and apartment building. In all those and some other areas the Bolsheviks made just enough and of just the right size to not strain resources beyond the capacity to scrounge more and to raise the expectations of the people.

Bolshevism is, as Petros implies, almost synonymous with sustainable development.
 

mentalfloss

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Here's what wiki says about sustainability:

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship, the responsible management of resource use. In ecology, sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time, a necessary precondition for the well-being of humans and other organisms. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems.

Sustainability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia