Pro-crastinator / Research Officer for the Legacy of Hope Foundation / she/her / Yonsei settler on Haudenosaunee and Mississauga of the First Credit territory
Americans thinking Canadian wildfire smoke shouldn’t affect them and Canadians thinking FDA cuts won’t affect our food supply. We’re all on this continent together, buckos. Smoke, parasites and viruses don’t care about borders.
of course it is ALWAYS our Indigenous communities that suffer first and hardest because of our lack of attention to climate change. This is utterly devastating and we cannot continue to keep allowing this to happen.
what is most heartbreaking about these wildfires is the fact that most of canada wouldn't be on fire if our government embraced ancestral practices of fire stewardship and allowed indigenous communities to continue cultural burning
40 degree weather followed by wildfire smoke in the air the next day. Surely my government is all in on renewable clean energy and definitely isn’t just investing into fossil fuels right??? Surely
Canadians — you and me — are set to pay for yet another oil pipeline that could devastate an at-risk killer whale population and worsen the climate crisis.
Well, provided everything progresses as Mark Carney announced alongside a beaming Alberta Premier Danielle Smith last night.
Here's why:
Yesterday's pipeline announcement is yet another reminder that Prime Minister Carney cares more about lining the pockets of his corporate friends than upholding the Constitutional rights of Indigenous peoples and protecting the public from the escalating climate emergency.
It’s time for us to stand up and tell the Liberal government we’ve had enough!
I would like to remind the Prime Minister that the government’s current approach does not satisfy the “prior” requirement of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent. International standards are clear that Indigenous peoples must be meaningfully consulted before major decisions, approvals, or designations are made. When the federal government unilaterally determines that a project is in the “national interest” and only then initiates consultation, a foundational decision has already been imposed.
Consultation after the fact cannot be considered prior consent.
We need to follow the countries leading the energy transition and build for industries of the future.
That’s why I, with the support of the NDP leader @avilewis, have sponsored @350Canada's petition calling on the federal government to stop pushing environmentally catastrophic new fossil fuel projects, to protect the health of all those impacted by the climate emergency, and to invest in a green energy transition led by workers, communities and Indigenous peoples.
Click the link below to sign our petition and tell Carney: stop accelerating the climate emergency and protect our future:
https://t.co/jKXVUi6LYZ
Pragmatically killing the Southern Resident Killer Whale population so we can export more oil and gas in a decade to an economy that no longer wants it because everyone else is transitioning to renewables 🤗🤗🤗
I am sorry but we are in a climate crisis and data centers continue to poison communities filled with marginalized people. You SHOULD be ashamed and embarrassed to be using ai