No one is freaking out about it. The problem is that your comment doesn’t make any sense. Invoking China is a non-sequitur. Like, sir this is a Wendy’s.

The Hatchet

no no, that’s far too onerous. But since you clearly don’t like us just blanket rejecting these applications, let’s feed the claims into this racist ai machine as a compromise

He’s devoted his professional life to capital markets. I’ve read his book, watched hours of interviews and speeches. My assessment: his interest in climate is largely limited to the potential investment returns of a given action.

That’s why his book is full of fanciful notions of hydrogen fuel, nuclear, carbon capture, AI, quantum computing, and cryptocurrency-based “smart contracts” … instead of focusing on the stuff that actually works but has a low potential ROI, and/or doesn’t funnel vast quantities of public money to the private sector: wind, solar, geothermal, public transit, heat pumps, public ownership, and so on.

Which is why it’s bizarre we’re supporting them throughout all their belligerence.

Oh sorry I thought you were talking about the US

“Yet this isn’t the first time that the Carney government has taken policy cues from the fossil fuel and AI sectors. This past October, the prime minister directly referenced in a speech the organization Build Canada, which is led by and associated with tech, oil, and gas billionaires.”

begging people to understand that Carney is terrible on climate, and his famous Tragedy of the Horizon speech was only ever about an investment pitch, not about actually mitigating climate change

I was aware of this mechanism existing in Alberta, but I’m pretty certain it doesn’t exist federally … ?

Maybe i’m misunderstanding your comment, but Hodgson is a cabinet minister, not an ambassador. This is government policy, apparently!

COOL, COOL COOL COOL

come to think of it, this is really similar to Trump support - the difference being when Trump contradicts himself he’s ‘trolling’ or ‘joking’, and with Carney it’s ‘the master strategist at work, just wait and see’ …

yeah it’s wild how a significant chunk of this technocrat’s supporters keep making claims that aren’t falsifiable. There’s literally nothing that people can point to that will change their mind.

I count at least three false dichotomies in one comment, that’s impressive!

No, I expect him to be doing the good things that his supporters keep claiming he will do, rather than doing the bad things he has been consistently doing. But thanks for attacking me personally rather than having any kind of honest discussion, I guess?

What’s interesting about this discussion is that all the “good” stuff Carney is supposedly aiming at is entirely hypothetical and rhetorical, and the bad stuff is very real.

40,000 jobs cut in the federal public sector by someone who promised to “cap, not cut” the public service.

Massive cuts to the CBC by someone who promised to increase their funding.

But we should keep trusting him?

I was told that Carney understood climate change and economics, and then he went and tripled down on the same fossil fuels that are causing the current global geopolitical and economic crisis. Oh, and greenwashing is legal again, which is the cherry on top of that shit sundae.

It’s been over a year of cuts and deregulation benefitting massive corporations. How long are people prepared to cling to their religious-like faith in a man who has only ever been a friend to the Goldman Sachs/Brookfield class?

The only mountain Carney is interested in is the enormous pile of money he is fire-hosing at the corporate world

Well, let’s look at Carney’s actions then.

He vocally supported the kidnapping of Maduro.

Then just days later he went and made some handshake investment deal with Qatar, a gulf dictatorship that used thousands of slaves to build its World Cup stadiums, and is the country holding onto the proceeds of Trump’s sale of stolen Venezuelan oil.

Then Carney cheered the unprovoked US & Israeli attacks on Iran, walked back his support a little when he saw the public outrage, and is now trying to weasel-word his was into Canadian troops supporting the fascist US in a war of aggression.

Brookfield has billions of dollars invested in the gulf states like Qatar that Carney is suddenly calling our “partners”, by the way

I agree that it’s what he said in Davos, but this ‘doctrine’ is effectively just caving to the outlook of Trump, Putin, et al, which deems that economic and military might make right, and that we should measure human worth in GDP rather than the inherent value of one’s humanity.

The Carney Doctrine is Value over Values, in other words. It’s really cynical and shitty tbh