MOPGA: Macron Delivers Stunning Blow to Trump

Jinentonix

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but that Canada would be "unwavering in our commitment to fight climate change and support clean economic growth."
Soooo continuing to exploit the oil sands and burning ever more natgas is their commitment to fight climate change? Oh THAT'S right, we're getting nailed with carbon taxes and pricing so that magically means our emissions (what little we actually do produce) won't affect the climate.
 

Jinentonix

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They have a good balance.
Da fuq are you talking about? Money doesn't make emissions go away. Are you trying to suggest that with carbon taxes and pricing the emissions from the oil sands are no longer a "problem"?
Never mind the idiotic switch over from CO2 to methane if you're supposedly concerned about global warming.

How about the poisoned wells and aquifers in Chatham-Kent, a result of the installation of wind turbines? That doesn't sound very green. And it's funny too because the same people who get rightly pissed about poisoned water supplies from fracking, aren't saying a whole lot about this little fiasco.

Oh, and let's not forget the Wynned sock's forcing of the Ring of Fire issue. Yep, she's so concerned about climate change she's pushing through a massive mining project. An activity with a huge carbon footprint, not to mention the serious potential for ground and water contamination.

So we have this green energy called wind power. Yet right now in Ontario it's devouring some of the world's best farmland, leaking oil from their nacelles, causing wood lots to be knocked down, creating low frequency noise that's a problem for some humans and animals, requires MW for MW of back-up generation in the form of natgas and now it's poisoning water supplies.
Then we have solar power. Unfortunately there's only a limited geographical area in Canada that gets enough sunshine to make the investment worthwhile. The rest of Canada would be seriously wasting its time and money.
And geo-thermal is pretty much out of the question for almost all of Canada.

Not really sure what the green energy alternatives are in Canada to be honest. Trudeau is a follower not a leader and he is easily led around by the nose by those more experienced at the game than he. Same with the Wynned sock.
 

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Sadly the US under the Dumpster's presidency seems to be willing to surrender world leadership on major global issues to other nations.

Fortunately, there are enough open minded and futuristic thinkers in the US, people like Elon Musk, that the US is ready to assume leadership as soon as the orange-skinned idiot in the White House either resigns or is voted out.
 

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And last — but definitely not least — Macron caps off his little speech by calling on Americans, the French, and other allies to “make our planet great again.”
So he's all about European imperialism and slavery? I mean if "making America great again" actually means going back to the days of Jim Crow, then, you know, a European talking about making the world great again MUST be talking about European imperialism. That's how it works, right?
 

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Nope.

MOPGA :lol:


Trump can pull out of the Paris climate accord – the world has moved on

There was a time when an American president could derail the effort to fight global warming. But not this time, and not this President.

Donald Trump's declaration that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris agreement on climate change will have as much impact as someone in the 1890s declaring their opposition to the internal combustion engine.

More than a century later, that engine is finally starting to give way to electric alternatives, just as carbon-fueled power plants are giving way to cleaner sources.

Mr. Trump can howl, as he did Thursday, that "the Paris agreement handicaps the United States economy in order to win praise from the very foreign capitals and global activists who sought to gain wealth at our country's expense." But the rest of the world has moved on.

Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper honestly believed that pursuing climate-change initiatives, while the Americans did nothing, would cost Canadian jobs. The landscape has changed since then.

Our economy, as well as the global environment, now depend on exploiting renewable sources. Canada still has a future as an exporter of carbon-based energy. But it must also have a non-carbon based future, or there will be no future at all.

That's why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted Thursday that he was "deeply disappointed" by America's withdrawal from Paris, but that Canada would be "unwavering in our commitment to fight climate change and support clean economic growth."

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/ne...ttps://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile

Poor Selfie boy missed the boat. Again.

They have a good balance.

ROFLMAO. Balance to you is a Selfie boy stick in each hand.
 

mentalfloss

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Macron trolls Trump, again

French President Emmanuel Macron used Donald Trump’s own catchphrase to take a dig at the U.S. president’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

In a statement late Thursday and a visual tweet on Friday, Macron urged the world to “Make our planet great again.”

The French president also repeated a call he made during his election campaign inviting American scientists to move to France to work on climate change.

“This evening, the United States turned its back on the world,” Macron said on Thursday. “But France will not turn its back on the Americans.”

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.politico.eu/article/macron-trolls-trump-again/amp/
 

coldstream

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Macron and Merkel and Justin are banding together like Muskox in a defensive circle. They are the legates of the failed Liberal paradigm that has put the West into a death spiral.

None of these featherweights will be in office in 5 years. Trump represents an Avant Garde of New Order. The Old is not going to go without a fight, though, but these shills are simply disposable fronts for a much more malignant and debauched establishment, which will have to be rooted out.