Climate change. Gender equality. The evils of natural gas and oil.
Climate change:
Is it real? Absolutely. Is it due to people? I don’t believe it is. Why? The climate has been changing since the earth has existed. There’s been other ice ages. There’s been other warm ages. These eras happened long before people were so plentiful. Long before current living standards with all the pollutants belching forth to keep us warm. So, yes, climate change is real but should not be used as a political reason to tax.
It is extremely arrogant to assume humans have any effect on what Mother Nature is doing or has done. It is even more arrogant to think we can control these changes. The reality is, the only thing we can control is cleaning up after ourselves in this over-the-top throwaway society.
Gender equality:
I don’t know about you, but I find it insulting to all women that some employers feel it necessary to put a woman in a position of authority to keep their company “gender balanced”. Did I earn the position? Am I qualified? Or did I get it just cuz I’m a girl? Because that’s insulting if it’s the reason any woman is able to climb the ladder. Most of us want to be recognized by merit, not a give-me.
The evils of oil and natural gas:
The rhetoric is always the same. We need renewable energy. Why? Oil and gas is baaaad. What are renewables? Wind and solar are the two most popular answers. So. What are solar panels made with? What is used to store the energy from these panels? Silicone and lithium batteries, respectively. Is lithium renewable? How is it harvested? What about silicone? What is it’s main product? What is their life span? (Longer than a windmill, but I don’t know the exact length.) What are the main products used to make windmills? Is steel a renewable resources? How is it harvested? What is the life span of a windmill? (A mere 25 years.) Not to mention the many health concerns people have living near a wind farm. Why aren’t more people asking these questions? Why do people so blindly follow popular bandwagons?
Also, the two provinces most virulently opposing oil & gas transportation are also dumping raw sewage into the very waters they claim to want to protect. Why isn’t there an uproar about this blatant — and highly unnecessary — pollution that can cause multitudes of disease and damage to water ecosystems?
No one ever considers without the current monetary benefits from oil and gas, our country would not be so well funded with social programs, like health care or education. Nor do they consider what would happen to our quality of life if we simply shut this industry down because of hypocritical activists. Canada’s oil and gas sector has some of the highest regulations in the world that help protect our environment while harvesting a very necessary product.
So I wish everyone would sit down, shut up and use their damned heads for 5 minutes on all three subjects to think it through — from every angle. But for gods’ sakes, quit believing all the media hype.
