It's enough to make a person think about refusing the pension. But that is equivalent to a vow of poverty. This is just one of the ways capitalism has us tethered by our short curlies.
We might just be imagining that corral. A friend of ours who has a little investment capital decided last year that even if it cost him, he was divesting from warmongering and fossil foolery....to his surprise, he did better this year than ever before.
Bill McKibbon, in a recent post, informed as that globally, the money going into renewables has passed that going into fossil fuels. I think neoliberal captured msm, and big dark money works overtime to convince us fossil fueled wars make money........but for the actual future, they have to be seen as POVERTY CREATORS.......we're just being sucked into believing destruction makes for big profits.
We can't expect it overnight......but we're playing with extinction on steroids if we continue to believe that Canada's future prosperity depends on either War abroad, or Fossil Fuel extraction at home.
It may appear to swing that way just now, but a liveable future is going to depend on green technologies (already cheaper than much fracked gas infrastructure), restorative agriculture, actual regulations that protect the commons (our oceans come to mind), and real jobs in the Care economy that we are cheating just now..............
..............to invest in Israeli banks?? fracked gas wells??? 5-35's that are so expensive to run and maintain that they can't do the job required, of patrolling our vast Arctic???
Lockheed Martin??? Palantir???
A lot of naive seniors working hard to get their 'elbows up' are living off war graft that includes genocide. Why not look into ICE........seems that's a money making proposition waiting for some 'conservative investment" consideration.
Hard to be a Canadian Pensioner and NOT be passively involved in genocide and war.
It's enough to make a person think about refusing the pension. But that is equivalent to a vow of poverty. This is just one of the ways capitalism has us tethered by our short curlies.
My wife and I attended the Calgary incarnation of the CPPIB show. Much of it seemed to be about skating around inconvenient facts. I asked about divesting from companies named in UN Special Rapporteur Fracesca Albanese's recent report. (see https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/#_ftn146 ) The answer was, to say the least, unsatisfactory.
We might just be imagining that corral. A friend of ours who has a little investment capital decided last year that even if it cost him, he was divesting from warmongering and fossil foolery....to his surprise, he did better this year than ever before.
Bill McKibbon, in a recent post, informed as that globally, the money going into renewables has passed that going into fossil fuels. I think neoliberal captured msm, and big dark money works overtime to convince us fossil fueled wars make money........but for the actual future, they have to be seen as POVERTY CREATORS.......we're just being sucked into believing destruction makes for big profits.
We can't expect it overnight......but we're playing with extinction on steroids if we continue to believe that Canada's future prosperity depends on either War abroad, or Fossil Fuel extraction at home.
It may appear to swing that way just now, but a liveable future is going to depend on green technologies (already cheaper than much fracked gas infrastructure), restorative agriculture, actual regulations that protect the commons (our oceans come to mind), and real jobs in the Care economy that we are cheating just now..............
..............to invest in Israeli banks?? fracked gas wells??? 5-35's that are so expensive to run and maintain that they can't do the job required, of patrolling our vast Arctic???
Lockheed Martin??? Palantir???
A lot of naive seniors working hard to get their 'elbows up' are living off war graft that includes genocide. Why not look into ICE........seems that's a money making proposition waiting for some 'conservative investment" consideration.
https://youtu.be/78sDkdJj1TQ?si=oDMQs8aSLBNOohky
Thanks for this. We are the fair minded, near sighted Patriots........for capitalistically sure.
What free trade was destined to do for our economy...........tie it to the global hegemon.
This was also some of the backlash CPP received on their last visit. Hopefully if more pushback from actual CPP holders toward Green might be helpful.