tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6786299870546163636..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Is This Just a Phase We're Going Through? We Need to Figure This Out. This Could Be a Matter of Life or Death.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-40792582023316010512020-05-11T06:41:51.920-07:002020-05-11T06:41:51.920-07:00Identifying needed change is one thing, e.a.f. Ove...Identifying needed change is one thing, e.a.f. Overcoming inertia to implement that change is the real challenge.<br /><br />I see no sign that the political will exists to change course as we must. I thought about this when I listened to the CBC podcast this morning. There was a report on Trudeau's Folly, the Trans-Mountain pipeline starting to break ground today. The story had a clip of an Alberta oil baron who said that the extra capacity wasn't needed and wouldn't be for a long time. He knew that the bitumen that pipe is designed to carry to the BC coast has become a "stranded asset." <br /><br />The project is only viable politically, not economically and not environmentally. This demonstrates how much inertia is in the system and how even youthful leaders such as Trudeau have feet of clay even now when the world needs massive change to the global economy.The Disaffected Libhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13135599782685108764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3180834605551597822020-05-10T23:18:17.501-07:002020-05-10T23:18:17.501-07:00We better take it seriously. We still don't ...We better take it seriously. We still don't have a cure or vaccine for HIV/AIDS. we have a pill which makes it manageable, but that is it. For all the hype by the media and the government and whomever else, we may never find a cure for it. The financial "elite" won't care if hundreds of millions die as long as their profits are not impacted too much. It will be up to citizens to ensure their governments do the right thing and that will include changing how we live. We are also going to have to deal with China and their wet markets. <br /><br />other countries are going to have to have functioning health and social systems, hello U.S.A. and others are going to have to improve theirs, hello Canada. Other dictatorships are going to have to be reigned in these dictator squander billions of their citizens' money and then other countries are expected to fix things. I've got no problem, with our country helping others but those countries are going to have to have leaders who don't piss away their capital on nuclear bombs, hello India or jets they don't need.e.a.f.noreply@blogger.com