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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Re: GDP growth as an isolated measure while correct in stating it is not declining is incorrect in that relative to western world democracies (including Europe) is falling behind and relative to BRIC countries who are leveraging populations and modernizing simultaneously is extremely disingenuous. The big challenge today is Canadian entitlement and laziness embedded in a culture that is increasingly global in its competitiveness. This is a philosophical question about what kind of standard of living Canadians want and what kind of standard of living Canadians need (these are 2 different things most likely and will be a cultural challenge we struggle with as a society for the next 100 years). To say here is a graph of GDP growth is 1/10 the story and is disingenuous idiocy, and something tells me anyone with a shred of self reflection and honesty knows this. Have you travelled anywhere? Like, outside of Canada?
The rest of your gobbly#### is 110% nonsense not based in reality about energy systems and how human beings and the world works. I too think that laser beams and flying cars that are powered by pixie dust are just right right around the corner. There’s cool new science and emerging technologies and then there’s 100s of years of human civilization history to tell us about technology adoption trends, timelines and realities that we would be ill advised to ignore if we want Canada to be a relevant country 50 years from now. But being ignorant about energy systems is cool and stuff, and Justin Trudeau the biggest idiot of all tells us from his mansion that climate change is the biggest crisis facing us (it could be, but it depends on your values, and most Canadians disagree- obviously- evidenced by actions).
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SMH. Smartest person in the room syndrome. You should particularly be concerned about your lack of knowledge with respect to technology adoption and the capacity of humans as a species to rapidly develop and implement new technology. It's an exponential curve, especially when the situation is urgent. Best example over the last couple years is the MRNA vaccines. Money was poured into getting this problem solved at a scale never seen before.
We're at the precipice of the same urgency with respect to our dependency on Carbon and the damage it's doing/done. It's the future costs we'll pay due to our lack of resolve and lack of public investment into clean energy that is going to be painful for all of us.
We'll always need oil in some shape or form but it's foolish to not divest from it at this point. I guess do you want to be behind the curve or ahead of it????
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