It's a shame other ways can't be found to generate mass profits for businesses and people, the question being, why does oil and gas and mineral exploration generate so much cash, while so many other industries simply can't compare?
During the last Federal election campaign, Elizabeth May claimed there were hundreds if not thousands of decent green jobs waiting to be created, if I remember correctly, an idea stated by the Leap Manifesto as well I believe, I'd like to learn more about this potentiality if there are related books available, bustling economies are a wonderful thing, and if the potential for green economies is reasonable, why aren't politicians doing more to create them?
I'm not looking to replace the mineral resources sector with green economies until a genius comes along who can make dependable coffee makers out of fruits and vegetables, although reducing their environmental impacts is always a top priority, and I'm hoping that idea isn't as far-fetched as it sounds (hemp perhaps?), as we continue to find ways to combat global warming.
We're too heavily reliant on oil and metal to stop seeking new sources in the moment, and too many people's livelihoods depend on them to write them off without much forethought.
Oil's become much harder to extract, however, and vulnerable remote ecosystems are being heavily relied upon, with disastrous ecological effects, and none too comfy hard-edged working environments.
Far away from home.
And the remote locations are sometimes home to thousands of people who would rather not develop oil and gas resources.
If they say "no", it should mean "no".
Another location should be found.
But other locations aren't found and the issues interminably proliferate in the media, often reaching a dire conclusion, if objective fair play isn't judicially leveraged.
The Condor & The Eagle presents many activists fighting to save their lands on the combative frontlines.
Their stories are courageous and inspiring, as they fight back with neither time nor resources.
I've said it before, and others have too, how do you get a group of highly specialized academics or scientists to agree about anything, no matter how insignificant?, but even with all that compelling individuality, the vast majority of them firmly believe in climate change.
And have proof to back up their claims which so often fall on deaf ears.
You would think resource extraction would be more environmentally sound since they've had so much time to develop green methodologies, but nothing's as simple as these variable ideas relate.
If someone did find a way to mass market pure biotechnology, they'd probably be locked-up for life.
But it's clear that we need to transition away from oil and gas and likely should have started some time ago.
It goes without saying that it's dangerous to be so reliant on one energy source (so many "ages" came to an end).
We have the means to start transitioning.
Why don't oil and gas producers find a way to capitalize on them?
While decreasing highly dangerous and questionable expenditures?
Showing posts with label Aboriginal Affairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aboriginal Affairs. Show all posts
Friday, June 5, 2020
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Through Black Spruce
A family grieves the disappearance of a loved one, as a distraught daring twin sister (Tanaya Beatty as Annie) heads to Toronto in search of answers.
Uncertain if she'll find anything, and proceeding without much to go on, she follows her only leads, and soon meets her sister's last contacts.
Last known contacts.
Back home her caring uncle (Brandon Oakes as Will) has problems, for he's angered a group of thugs who tend to express themselves viciously.
He's trying to unobtrusively get by, but finds himself branded a person of interest.
He's soon hiding out on a remote island, while his niece runs into troubles of her own.
Rough, gruelling, dire anxious realities, jurisprudently stitched, in tragic combative song.
The characters in Don McKellar's Through Black Spruce find themselves living in contrasting environments, one chill and peaceful, the other harsh and violent.
Living within them tragically bewilders, as conflicts which they had nothing to do with assault wholesome fun initiatives.
An act of healing, a gentle harmless letter sent off to put minds at ease, provokes extreme tension, and disrupts otherwise blooming friendships.
And a career.
The film athletically unreels with hard-edged sophistication, presenting diverse accessible scenes with a tough gritty concerned sensibility.
A fireside chat in Toronto, hunting together in James Bay, introductions to the art world, with specific takes on the discipline of photography.
For instance.
The blend of the two storylines could have been smoother though, as extended time intervals separate the tales from one another.
But since one storyline's urban and the other's set far away, the different paces, the different immersions, may have produced unsought after shocks, had they been edited and merged more consistently.
The lengthy immersions do creatively pull you into different aspects of Indigenous life, notably the non-toxic bug spray, and the extended time gives each of them their own lifeforce, lifeforces which may not have blossomed had they been cut more regularly.
It's nice to see long patient scenes.
And stories about First Nations people that aren't filled with violence.
What happened to Annie's twin remains a mystery, another sad story in an extreme crisis that effects all of Canada and elsewhere.
If the same percentage of woman of European descent disappeared or were murdered as often as their First Nations Canadian sisters, I imagine governments would enlist armies to find a solution to the problem.
To the extreme crisis.
This is no exaggeration.
The statistics are plain as day.
There needs to be a strong will to make Canada safe for these women.
The racist realities of which should be considered.
Good film.
Love Brandon Oakes.
Uncertain if she'll find anything, and proceeding without much to go on, she follows her only leads, and soon meets her sister's last contacts.
Last known contacts.
Back home her caring uncle (Brandon Oakes as Will) has problems, for he's angered a group of thugs who tend to express themselves viciously.
He's trying to unobtrusively get by, but finds himself branded a person of interest.
He's soon hiding out on a remote island, while his niece runs into troubles of her own.
Rough, gruelling, dire anxious realities, jurisprudently stitched, in tragic combative song.
The characters in Don McKellar's Through Black Spruce find themselves living in contrasting environments, one chill and peaceful, the other harsh and violent.
Living within them tragically bewilders, as conflicts which they had nothing to do with assault wholesome fun initiatives.
An act of healing, a gentle harmless letter sent off to put minds at ease, provokes extreme tension, and disrupts otherwise blooming friendships.
And a career.
The film athletically unreels with hard-edged sophistication, presenting diverse accessible scenes with a tough gritty concerned sensibility.
A fireside chat in Toronto, hunting together in James Bay, introductions to the art world, with specific takes on the discipline of photography.
For instance.
The blend of the two storylines could have been smoother though, as extended time intervals separate the tales from one another.
But since one storyline's urban and the other's set far away, the different paces, the different immersions, may have produced unsought after shocks, had they been edited and merged more consistently.
The lengthy immersions do creatively pull you into different aspects of Indigenous life, notably the non-toxic bug spray, and the extended time gives each of them their own lifeforce, lifeforces which may not have blossomed had they been cut more regularly.
It's nice to see long patient scenes.
And stories about First Nations people that aren't filled with violence.
What happened to Annie's twin remains a mystery, another sad story in an extreme crisis that effects all of Canada and elsewhere.
If the same percentage of woman of European descent disappeared or were murdered as often as their First Nations Canadian sisters, I imagine governments would enlist armies to find a solution to the problem.
To the extreme crisis.
This is no exaggeration.
The statistics are plain as day.
There needs to be a strong will to make Canada safe for these women.
The racist realities of which should be considered.
Good film.
Love Brandon Oakes.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Angry Inuk
I don't think I could ever kill a seal or a dear or a pig or a cow, but, as mentioned previously, I do eat meat and understand that somewhere down the line the lives of the animals I consume are cut short, that someone else brought their lives to an end, and they may earn their livings by engaging in such activities.
It's different if the species is threatened or endangered, or animal babies are involved, or if people are eating a species with a slow reproductive rate, but husbandry usually doesn't manage species at risk, as far as I know, the inherent cruelty of many aspects of factory farming notwithstanding.
Keep raising your voices and such aspects will change, all you have to do is frustrate a business's bottomline.
Several of the animals I eat are quite cute, however.
They're all quite cute.
I've considered posting pictures of them on my fridge to remind me not to eat them but still haven't gotten around to it.
Man I love steak.
Still, I'm glad there aren't massive industrial entities harvesting seals along with pigs and cows, but if some people in remote areas where there are no alternative economic opportunities want to hunt them, and sell products made from their skin etc., I see no problem with this, since the seals in fact flourish in abundance.
The seal population in Nunavut, for instance, is much higher than that of its human residents, meaning that if such residents want to hunt seals and sell boots and parkas made from their hides afterwards, I can't rationally critique such commerce.
Alethea Arnaqua-Baril's Angry Inuk takes a hard look at the EU's decision to ban the sale of seal products within its domain, and the effects that that decision has had on small communities in Nunavut, Canada.
Before the ban, the communities were earning enough money to support themselves, and people in Europe may not know that a 12 pack of ginger ale can cost as much as $82 North of 60.
After the ban, these communities were still (are still) able to hunt seals for subsistence purposes if they could afford to buy gas for their snow machines, but without markets to sell their seal products, they couldn't afford to do much else, the ban on the import of seal goods having effectively crushed their only economy, and left them dependent on government assistance.
They sustainably harvest a small fraction of the seal population and if allowed to do so can support themselves with dignity and respect.
I therefore support a reversal of the ban.
I find it hard to stomach that the EU props up the veal industry, which is extra revolting, the mass slaughter of baby cows, the systematic mechanized profit based mass slaughter of baby cows many of whom are restrained from birth, and it won't support a handful of Inuit hunters shooting free seals in the wild who have grown to adulthood outside of a cage.
Baffling.
I've heard that centuries ago working people in England desperately wanted to eat meat because the upper classes generally were the only ones who could afford it.
I think that if you transported many of those workers to the 21st century and showed them the unbelievably miserable lives many animals lead in order so that the majority of North Americans and Europeans can eat meat, over a billion deaths weekly according to some sites, they may return to their time(s) lacking their former jealousies.
Or currently, currently send oblivious citizens to a slaughterhouse and have them stay there for a week, invisibly, so they can see how the animals are treated when the workforce thinks no one is looking.
Factory farms can become organic.
It may only raise the cost of a big mac by 35 cents.
Governments could also subsidize the transition.
While subsidizing the cost of food North of 60.
Canada's population North of 60 is around 114, 970.
If the oil and gas industry receives massive government subsidies every year, there must be some money lying around to bring the cost of a 12 pack of ginger ale down to $7 in the far North.
If food costs come down and the Inuit can market seal products again, you've got a thriving aboriginal success story.
That's not only good press.
It's also solid humanity.
Angry Inuk, a must see documentary.
Shame on you Greenpeace.
Shame.
It's different if the species is threatened or endangered, or animal babies are involved, or if people are eating a species with a slow reproductive rate, but husbandry usually doesn't manage species at risk, as far as I know, the inherent cruelty of many aspects of factory farming notwithstanding.
Keep raising your voices and such aspects will change, all you have to do is frustrate a business's bottomline.
Several of the animals I eat are quite cute, however.
They're all quite cute.
I've considered posting pictures of them on my fridge to remind me not to eat them but still haven't gotten around to it.
Man I love steak.
Still, I'm glad there aren't massive industrial entities harvesting seals along with pigs and cows, but if some people in remote areas where there are no alternative economic opportunities want to hunt them, and sell products made from their skin etc., I see no problem with this, since the seals in fact flourish in abundance.
The seal population in Nunavut, for instance, is much higher than that of its human residents, meaning that if such residents want to hunt seals and sell boots and parkas made from their hides afterwards, I can't rationally critique such commerce.
Alethea Arnaqua-Baril's Angry Inuk takes a hard look at the EU's decision to ban the sale of seal products within its domain, and the effects that that decision has had on small communities in Nunavut, Canada.
Before the ban, the communities were earning enough money to support themselves, and people in Europe may not know that a 12 pack of ginger ale can cost as much as $82 North of 60.
After the ban, these communities were still (are still) able to hunt seals for subsistence purposes if they could afford to buy gas for their snow machines, but without markets to sell their seal products, they couldn't afford to do much else, the ban on the import of seal goods having effectively crushed their only economy, and left them dependent on government assistance.
They sustainably harvest a small fraction of the seal population and if allowed to do so can support themselves with dignity and respect.
I therefore support a reversal of the ban.
I find it hard to stomach that the EU props up the veal industry, which is extra revolting, the mass slaughter of baby cows, the systematic mechanized profit based mass slaughter of baby cows many of whom are restrained from birth, and it won't support a handful of Inuit hunters shooting free seals in the wild who have grown to adulthood outside of a cage.
Baffling.
I've heard that centuries ago working people in England desperately wanted to eat meat because the upper classes generally were the only ones who could afford it.
I think that if you transported many of those workers to the 21st century and showed them the unbelievably miserable lives many animals lead in order so that the majority of North Americans and Europeans can eat meat, over a billion deaths weekly according to some sites, they may return to their time(s) lacking their former jealousies.
Or currently, currently send oblivious citizens to a slaughterhouse and have them stay there for a week, invisibly, so they can see how the animals are treated when the workforce thinks no one is looking.
Factory farms can become organic.
It may only raise the cost of a big mac by 35 cents.
Governments could also subsidize the transition.
While subsidizing the cost of food North of 60.
Canada's population North of 60 is around 114, 970.
If the oil and gas industry receives massive government subsidies every year, there must be some money lying around to bring the cost of a 12 pack of ginger ale down to $7 in the far North.
If food costs come down and the Inuit can market seal products again, you've got a thriving aboriginal success story.
That's not only good press.
It's also solid humanity.
Angry Inuk, a must see documentary.
Shame on you Greenpeace.
Shame.
Monday, December 17, 2012
Le Nord au cœur
Serge Giguère's Le Nord au cœur provides a concise synopsis of one man's passionate relationship with the Canadian North, Northern Québec in particular. Having spent his life working within and defending the North's diversity, Louis-Edmond Hamelin has been integral in establishing while deconstructing Northern semantic conceptions while working hand-in-hand with Northern Aboriginal peoples.
The sparsely populated Canadian North occupies the majority of Canada's landscape(s) and the traditions of its Aboriginal peoples, from Labrador to Yukon, can be differentiated by sundry distinct variables. Creating a terse one-dimensional definition to encapsulate the vibrant traditions of so many prominent cultures does a disservice to their integrity, and is akin to trying to attach a monosyllabic moniker to Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Louis-Edmond Hamelin's lifework takes this frame into account while striving to ensure that Canada's Aboriginal peoples have a substantial voice in regards to the ways in which their land is developed. Le Nord au cœur demonstrates how political initiatives continually apply invigorated euphemisms to Northern development strategies, transhistorically presented as the new, without first respectfully negotiating with the nations whom these initiatives will directly and perennially impact.
It also offers picturesque visual details of other multidimensional Northern nomenclatures which diversify the North's multiplicities further. Cool look at an openminded man's lifetime commitment to integrating voices which often (still) go unheard.
The sparsely populated Canadian North occupies the majority of Canada's landscape(s) and the traditions of its Aboriginal peoples, from Labrador to Yukon, can be differentiated by sundry distinct variables. Creating a terse one-dimensional definition to encapsulate the vibrant traditions of so many prominent cultures does a disservice to their integrity, and is akin to trying to attach a monosyllabic moniker to Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Louis-Edmond Hamelin's lifework takes this frame into account while striving to ensure that Canada's Aboriginal peoples have a substantial voice in regards to the ways in which their land is developed. Le Nord au cœur demonstrates how political initiatives continually apply invigorated euphemisms to Northern development strategies, transhistorically presented as the new, without first respectfully negotiating with the nations whom these initiatives will directly and perennially impact.
It also offers picturesque visual details of other multidimensional Northern nomenclatures which diversify the North's multiplicities further. Cool look at an openminded man's lifetime commitment to integrating voices which often (still) go unheard.
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