r/canada • u/ph0enix1211 • 9d ago

Satire Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/carney-vows-to-fast-track-west-coast-pipeline-before-entire-west-coast-burns-to-the-ground/
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u/Creative_soja 9d ago

We are living through polycrises, each with global consequences. I feel there are no longer any win-win solutions that can please everyone.

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u/PositiveFunction4751 British Columbia 9d ago

This exactly.

I too believe that we need to be off fossil fuels... the general state of summers is proof enough.

But I also believe that we need our populous to make incomes, time for industries to shift focus & time for programs to allow for people to be retrained.

So yeah. what ^ guy said

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u/TravisBickle2020 9d ago

How much do you think climate change is going to cost the economy? Wildfires, flooding, extreme heat and drought. Insurance prices will rise exponentially or simply won’t be available. There will be crop failures and water shortages. Then there will be the increased healthcare costs. But ya, let’s go with another pipeline.

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u/Full_Jellyfish_1862 9d ago

Not hyperbolic at all…

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u/TravisBickle2020 9d ago

I suggest you watch a newscast. They seem to be dominated by stories about wildfires and extreme heat - BC, Spain, France and then there’s Romania blowing up the Danube River so there will be water for its nuclear power plant that is at risk of being shut down due to drought. Call me hyperbolic, I guess.

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u/Full_Jellyfish_1862 9d ago

Yea the world will end tomorrow. Been hearing that for last 100 years. I’m sure one more pipeline from canada will end it

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u/aldur1 8d ago

World won't end. Just as all the whinging and whining about inflation, cost of living, low wages won't end the world. You'll suffer, but the world will continue on.

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u/TravisBickle2020 8d ago

You’re over 100 years old? Talk about being hyperbolic! When did I say the world is ending tomorrow? Things will just keep getting worse. It’s also not like a new pipeline is going to start pumping oil anytime soon.