Everyday Canadians should not be expected to lead the transition to green energy while our politicians resist it: vilifying the carbon tax, expanding pipelines, levying Chinese EVs, the RCMP terrorizing Indigenous land defenders, all the pro-oil and anti-renewable stuff in Alberta (eg, windmills disrupt pristine landscapes and are prohibited while multibillion dollar oil companies are slapped on the wrist when they desecrate our environment).
We urgently need climate leadership in Canadian politics
It should be funded by big business that exploits workers.
The difference in salary between the highest paid employee and lowest paid contributor (not even direct employee, contractor/whatever) to the business should be paid every pay cycle to fund transition to green living.
Want to lose less to government? Raise worker wages or take an executive pay cut.
I love your idea in theory. In practice, I think it’s far too easy to hide CEO compensation and too effortful (ie, costly) for the government to track that. The easiest solution would probably be a carbon tax - which I figure would be linked to more transparently documented corporate revenue. As important historical context: that is the pro-business solution to navigating the climate crisis that the Conservatives and the ownership class wanted: a market-based solution without direct government regulation. Years later, they’ve rejected the most pro-business solution that they themselves championed and have worked hard to turn average Canadian voters against it through propaganda that the carbon tax is taking money from average Canadians. Now the Conservatives and ownership class’s solution to navigating the climate crisis is: pretend it doesn’t exist, keep riding this blip of unsustainable profitability as long as possible, and prevent everyday Canadians from realizing what they’re doing. The carbon tax should have been able to fund good jobs in a new economy
I still think windmills are pretty cool lol. There’s a program in my school for becoming a windmill technician and you can see the size of one blade and they truly are massive.
Everyday Canadians should not be expected to lead the transition to green energy while our politicians resist it: vilifying the carbon tax, expanding pipelines, levying Chinese EVs, the RCMP terrorizing Indigenous land defenders, all the pro-oil and anti-renewable stuff in Alberta (eg, windmills disrupt pristine landscapes and are prohibited while multibillion dollar oil companies are slapped on the wrist when they desecrate our environment).
We urgently need climate leadership in Canadian politics
It should be funded by big business that exploits workers.
The difference in salary between the highest paid employee and lowest paid contributor (not even direct employee, contractor/whatever) to the business should be paid every pay cycle to fund transition to green living.
Want to lose less to government? Raise worker wages or take an executive pay cut.
I love your idea in theory. In practice, I think it’s far too easy to hide CEO compensation and too effortful (ie, costly) for the government to track that. The easiest solution would probably be a carbon tax - which I figure would be linked to more transparently documented corporate revenue. As important historical context: that is the pro-business solution to navigating the climate crisis that the Conservatives and the ownership class wanted: a market-based solution without direct government regulation. Years later, they’ve rejected the most pro-business solution that they themselves championed and have worked hard to turn average Canadian voters against it through propaganda that the carbon tax is taking money from average Canadians. Now the Conservatives and ownership class’s solution to navigating the climate crisis is: pretend it doesn’t exist, keep riding this blip of unsustainable profitability as long as possible, and prevent everyday Canadians from realizing what they’re doing. The carbon tax should have been able to fund good jobs in a new economy
This is a tangent, but as a kid I always thought windmills looked cool as shit. I hate that talking point.
Big agree! I think they look solarpunk
I also thought smoke stacks from factories looked cool as kid, not that i didagree with your point here.
I still think windmills are pretty cool lol. There’s a program in my school for becoming a windmill technician and you can see the size of one blade and they truly are massive.
Ive watched a few videos of trucks transporting the blades. Really helped me understand the scale of them.