Buy Canadian Tar Sands
If your jaw is still gaping, it’s completely understandable. Propaganda at its most base level can do that. Take a moment … ask yourself, who are these people? Where are their offices? How much political favor has their crude cash purchased?
Over the holidays let’s put our heads together: how can we make the people who made this ad pay a price.
What would be a tactical response of equal spectacle?
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Anonymous
As a union member who works in the oil sands I am pissed of that you guys are want to deprive me and other working people in Canada of the right to earn a good living in the oil sands. Butt out
Anonymous
As a union member who works in the oil sands I am pissed of that you guys are want to deprive me and other working people in Canada of the right to earn a good living in the oil sands. Butt out
Anonymous
what price are we to pay for your "good" living? the earth? forget it. butt remaining in.
Anonymous
what price are we to pay for your "good" living? the earth? forget it. butt remaining in.
greg blanchette
The same argument could be made by ghetto drug dealers, arms dealers, pimps and many other "working" people. Just because it gives you a job doesn't make it right. I do agree that in moving away from dirty oil we should not leave the people now employed in that industry behind. But we do have to move away from oil, dirty and, well, dirtier.
Imagine if our economy was based on green renewables: no more supporting the repressive Saudis, no more strip-mining northern Alberta. Sounds pretty good to me!
greg blanchette
The same argument could be made by ghetto drug dealers, arms dealers, pimps and many other "working" people. Just because it gives you a job doesn't make it right. I do agree that in moving away from dirty oil we should not leave the people now employed in that industry behind. But we do have to move away from oil, dirty and, well, dirtier.
Imagine if our economy was based on green renewables: no more supporting the repressive Saudis, no more strip-mining northern Alberta. Sounds pretty good to me!
Anonymous
canada has wonderful wind and water resources. Both make clean, desireable energy. Or better yet, develop clean industry... like... why not build monstrously large server farms underneath the transmission lines sending canadian wind energy into the US. The land is nearly free, the cooling and power source is the wind, also free and renewable. Canada has lots of resources for its people to make a living; it does not need to destroy its environment to make jobs.
Anonymous
canada has wonderful wind and water resources. Both make clean, desireable energy. Or better yet, develop clean industry... like... why not build monstrously large server farms underneath the transmission lines sending canadian wind energy into the US. The land is nearly free, the cooling and power source is the wind, also free and renewable. Canada has lots of resources for its people to make a living; it does not need to destroy its environment to make jobs.
Anonymous
How about the fact that extracting this oil from the land is going to result in the death of other cultures? The native cultures in the northern reaches of the globe, very much so including Canada and Alaska, rely heavily on the land and caribou migration for their food and way of life. Do you honestly feel as though your job, is worth that?
How about the incredible amount of frozen soils, permafrost, that acts as a carbon sink collecting undecomposed carbon and freezing it, are disturbed, and they begin to melt? How about the effect that will have on our atmosphere, our oceans, is YOUR JOB worth that?
That is a sick state of mind and I hope that you read through these responses and gain the ability to consider the lives and perspectives of others. Bottom line is that oil and fossil fuels are a damaging, and dying fuel source and that focus should be put on other sources.
Anonymous
How about the fact that extracting this oil from the land is going to result in the death of other cultures? The native cultures in the northern reaches of the globe, very much so including Canada and Alaska, rely heavily on the land and caribou migration for their food and way of life. Do you honestly feel as though your job, is worth that?
How about the incredible amount of frozen soils, permafrost, that acts as a carbon sink collecting undecomposed carbon and freezing it, are disturbed, and they begin to melt? How about the effect that will have on our atmosphere, our oceans, is YOUR JOB worth that?
That is a sick state of mind and I hope that you read through these responses and gain the ability to consider the lives and perspectives of others. Bottom line is that oil and fossil fuels are a damaging, and dying fuel source and that focus should be put on other sources.
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