Today's tonic: "Mark Carney had a chance to weigh in one of the defining issues facing Canada. The answer he gave suggests he isn’t ready for public life"

Today's tonic: "Mark Carney had a chance to weigh in one of the defining issues facing Canada. The answer he gave suggests he isn’t ready for public life" by Matthew Mendelsohn, CEO of Social Capital Partners and a previous federal and Ontario deputy minister.  

I knew and admired Mendelsohn when he was Deputy Minister for Democratic Renewal in Ontario in 2003.  He's a great guy and a great thinker with clear progressive ideals.  

This article lays bare some gaping flaws or blind spots in Mark Carney's current political instincts.  Many have been jumping on Carney's bandwagon as a possible successor to Justin Trudeau as federal Liberal leader.  They should definitely have a read of this sobering critique of a man who's spent his whole career chumming with the richest elites on the planet. 

Someone so inexperienced in retail politics, who seems to be an apologist for the most powerful on earth and their ideologies, may not be quite a good fit for progressive national leadership, I do agree.   

"If Carney wants to play a constructive role in Canadian public life, he should think deeply about the staggering and growing wealth concentration in Canada and around the world." 

Today's warning: "EXPLAINER - Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like"

"EXPLAINER - Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like" 

As we surge forward, expecting everyone else to pay to stop the effects of climate change.  

As we hop in our big vehicles to drive to local stores to do more shopping, or jump onto our big boats to do more sailing, or skip onto yet another plane for a trip around the world again this year, creating incessant demand for more carbon while the world burns.  

Thank God PP Le Pire came to power and got rid of that nasty retail carbon tax the lefties had been imposing on me.  Now I can spend and do everything I've been doing with my inherited wealth without any consequences for myself, except for good ones.  

Sure, our new summer ritual is occasionally looking up at the forest fire burning smog-filled skies with fleeting worry, ignoring the ugly old people around me who can't breathe and need to go back home (all the better not to have to look at them, I guess, because they make us feel guilty and worried about our own future and who wants to feel like that?) 

Get out of my way as I need to speed down my new Highway paved over marsh lands and endangered species so I can get back home a couple minutes faster and watch the latest episode of the junk we're watching on Netflix. And turn on the bbq to eat more dead animals farmed using the carbon-heavy practices, now treated equally with other cleaner farming options because we don't tax pollution anymore.   And still the price of meat is higher than ever at my local grocery store despite the carbon tax elimination, funny that. 

If this is the world you dream of, get ready.  Here's a preview of where we're going as the global temperature continues to rise far past 1.5 C in the years and decades ahead.  It's coming.  Are you ready for it?  Are your kids ready for it?  Are your grandkids or future grandkids ready for it?  

Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/brutal-heatwaves-submerged-cities-what-3c-world-would-look-like