Thread by @sunnshiiny

I’ll tell you what the NDP climate change plan is.

Turn everything over to First Nations.

UNDRIP & LandBack is their climate plan.

For some unknown reason NDP seem to think all FN people are noble savages aiming to save the planet.

https://twitter.com/the12fthofnever/status/1459946365081948160

I’ve never heard of anything so ridiculous, racist and short sighted as their plan.

But that’s what ignorance produces.

Many FN oppose pipelines. But many do not. The majority of reserve residents who are employed are involved in some kind of extractive industry.

Oil, Natural Gas, Lumber, Mining (diamonds or minerals).

That’s the entire rural economy. Extraction of raw resource materials. Many independent farmers supplement their income with seasonal extraction industry jobs.

But ideology doesn’t consider reality.

Ideologues focus on the perfect policy response.

NDP believes FN will shut down all pipelines. Like they’re trying to do in the US. But there are hundreds of indigenous businesses supporting extractive industries in western Canada.

The NDP plan would bankrupt them all.

One fell swoop and a few hundred thousand people would be collecting EI while they scramble to sell their worthless properties, divest of worthless businesses, and emigrate to other parts of Canada.

Some of the most radical FN want this too.

Reality and ideals rarely gel. The NDP speaks of a just transition. What they mean is those dependent upon extractive industries and natural resources for income will receive some assistance to retrain and relocate.

But the economic losses are the workers’ own to bear and the provinces’ economy to manage.

The good people that support NDP don’t want drastic adjustments to impact them. Just the people unlucky enough to be dependent upon extraction of natural resources.

That it won’t be them needing to adjust. You can detect it in their advocacy. They’ve even assumed the role of decision maker on behalf of those who will need to change.

That is the underlying assumption made by climate change activists advocating for just transition legislation.

But have they driven in a car, heated their home, used electricity, used petrochemicals regularly. So the accusers availed themselves of O&G products (called demand).

But it’s those who work on the supply side that are the problem. Sure.

I don’t believe people realize how many modern products are derived from petrochemicals. We’ve been dependent on petrochemicals for about a century. It’s pervasive throughout society. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochem…

Clothes, Teflon, Kevlar, plastics, containers, almost everything you can think of has petrochemicals somewhere in the supply chain.

Activists don’t mention of consulting with workers & don’t acknowledge how integral to the rural economy extractive wages are. Just transition isn’t just the workers. It’s the supplementary businesses that support the industry as well. There doesn’t seem to be any plan for them.

This is why the NDP climate plan is a fail.

People, who have little to do with fossil fuels, but believe they have the responsibility and right to dictate how climate action will be delivered and who qualifies for a just transition, are adamant their voices be heard.

The arrogance, hubris and ignorance is astounding. For a group of people who are supposed to be empathetic, they sure aren’t.

The level of understanding of the problem is limited to the environmental needs and completely absent of the needs of the people who must adapt.

They don’t even realize the majority of people requiring a just transition are the small business owners and employees whose products and services support the extractive industry. Not just O&G workers. That’s a few million people.

It includes the communities in Alberta, but also every gas station in Canada. Every business that interacts with extraction industry workers and corporations. They all need to adapt and change.

As do we all.

I’m also unsure if anyone has bothered to let the NDP climate activists know that we currently do NOT have the capacity to replace all fossil fuels to heat homes or provide transportation.

But that doesn’t seem to register for many of them. That’s our problem.

As long as some people can remove any responsibility or liability for retraining workers and relocation expenses, whatever else happens during the transition is not their problem.

Some FN want to return to traditional lifestyles. No central heating. Living off the land.

It would mean survival training and adoption of a hunter gatherer society.

I’m not sure how FN are planning to communicate this desire to the rest of Canada, but about 37.5M Canadians are ill prepared to survive winter without shelter, heat and transportation.

But then again, logic and reason aren’t high on the list of ideologues. They know what SHOULD be reality, but strangely can’t seem to marry that to actual reality. Or develop a plan to realize their objectives.

They just yell into a void making demands they don’t understand.

It’s infuriating and exasperating.

Then I remember the efforts being made by Dominionists and libertarians to create conflict and animus. Chaos equals disunity and difficulty achieving common objectives.

Those with no plans to slow down extractive industries foster chaos.

It’s those individuals who are creating such a disunited approach to climate change.

The less realistic the public is, the more impossible it is to achieve climate action.

The irony of radical climate activism is not lost on me. But it is on NDP, who continue with demands.

I’m certain there are NDP supporters who care deeply about the environment and their own survival. If they could just extend some of that empathy, even sympathy, for those for deeply invested in O&G that would be good.

Extremism is NOT helpful in any form, left or right.

To make the changes required to preserve life on this planet, everyone must contribute to those changes. Not just the O&G industry. But it can’t be disunited effort. We need to work together and help one another. Not point fingers and look for scapegoats.

There are plenty to blame. They need to be removed from power. A massive paradigm shift needs to occur. We are ALL dependent upon the planet. And it’s our collective responsibility to make adaptations to make it habitable.

We ALL need to make lifestyle changes. Even activists.