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Born 307 ppm CO2.

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@SRuhle High five. I also got that one in two. An educated guess based on my starting word of the day.

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@JustineBateman Lady, I used to like you. You've lost perspective.

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@DrNeilStone I'm old enough to remember.

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Please read this. It’s important.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election this year, one thing will be true — a significant percent of Canadian voters and media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians, with smart pricing mechanisms well understood to be one of the most effective ways to support badly needed #ClimateCrisis mitigation, ALL because of a continually repeated political slogan as lazy as “axe the tax.”

It should take a lot more than that to get us to do something so dumb, so self-defeating, for our own future.

Why am I including the media in this? Because instead of media doing their job and constantly informing the public that the “carbon tax” is in fact a strategic rebate program that more than makes most Canadians financially whole every single time the “ax the tax” messaging is reported, they gave up on that quickly (if they did it at all). They instead fuelled a false narrative of “affordability vs climate action” that was never true (“Canadian voters are just more concerned about affordability than climate action,” I just heard that false choice again on the news). Most media eventually just started referring to the program with shorthand like “the unpopular” or “the controversial” or “the polarizing carbon tax.” Those shorthand statements are factually accurate, but they leave out that the program is unpopular because of the highly successful misinformation campaign that the media itself helped. In other words, they reported the controversy and ignored the more important story that the controversy was manufactured based on misinformation and the media itself played role in it.

At best, that’s lazy and unprofessional, and at worst that’s complicit.

We’re essentially all responsible though. We should all be a lot harder to manipulate than this. And sadly, the consequences of being such “easy marks” are going to be huge.

#ClimateCrisis #CarbonTax #AxeTheTax

[Bruce MacKinnon @CH_Cartoon]

THE BEST CARTOONS FROM 2024:
Aug. 15: The Final Nail
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@TheSilentG @katynotie Well, we're not sure of Jesus Christ's birthday, but Justin and Alexandre, yes.

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@howie_hua You left out the step showing that (1+ 1/n)^n is increasing.

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@Matt_Pinner I do the NYT Spelling Bee challenge most every day, so I saw PARASITE.

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@sytsema_andy I'm not sure where I stand with Trudeau 2025, but I stand with Tommy Douglas, and that means I am adamantly opposed to Pierre Poilievre and where he promises to take Canada.

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@RachelNotley Sorry to see you go, happy that you served as Alberta premiere. (Spelling mistake intentional.)

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@DaIeJohnson I don't think the Canadian electorate want Poilievre. Unfortunately, he's the most likely option that isn't Justin Trudeau.

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@DougWahl1 Pardon has the presupposition of guilt. What did Robert Mueller or Jack Smith or the Obamas do that requires a pardon?

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@NateSilver538 You're saying Joe Biden is no better than Donald Trump? You need some quiet time. I guess you're trying to avoid catching Pam Bondi's or Kash Patel's attention. Good luck with that.

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@PhysInHistory Denialism and skepticism are not the same. The skeptic says "Show me the evidence." The denialist says "That's not evidence. I don't believe it. If it's true I'd have an existential crisis to deal with and I can't handle that and there are lots of folks telling me it's not true."

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@NateSilver538 With Trump essentially promising to make life hell for Hunter I think a pardon is reasonable. I agree with you that Joe Biden should have declined to run for 2nd term, but don't agree on much beyond that.

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@TimHoustonNS Have you given any thought to the parallel that could be drawn between Make It Happen and Make America Great Again?

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@maxfawcett On the minus side, someone will tell them about PP, and they might as well try Australia or New Zealand instead.

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@CH_Cartoon There's been a big migration to BlueSky this week. Are you contemplating moving over? I'm sure they appreciate squirrel photos as well as political cartoons.

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@Tzeporah @TIME Are you on BlueSky?

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@DartmouthCommon @corrine_cash @ChenderClaudia @NSNDP Your understanding of the timing is correct. So the AJC and CIJA likely knew of the tweets months ago. They squeezed Claudia and Tammy after nominations closed.