The anatomy of compromise

Another hard lesson learned when you think you can successfully compromise with people whose ultimate goal is to destroy you.

But last week more than 500 organizations across Canada and the U.S., from Environmental Defence to Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, signed a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, contending that ‘carbon capture’ would actually delay the transition away from fossil fuels and ultimately increase CO2 emissions.

“Carbon capture is a dangerous distraction,” the letter states. “We don’t need to fix fossil fuels, we need to ditch them.”

19 Replies to “The anatomy of compromise”

  1. A compromise is always a loss for one side of the compromise. The only one I ever compromise with is my wife.

  2. “We don’t need to fix the cult of Gaia, we need to ditch it.”
    There, fixed it for ya.

  3. The organizations know what idiot Trudeau is as a flaky leader who will do anything to get his mug on the boob tube/idiot box.

    1. Wrong at least in part. Trudeau may be deeply stupid and vain, but he knows his role, plays it well. And he’s handled by some very serious people and organizations who are not stupid at all. If you want to stop Trudeau, Butts is the one to get.

  4. I demand that the signatories to these letters immediately commence building a separate electrical grid that only accepts power from wind turbines and solar panels in order to insure their businesses are truly “carbon neutral”.

    additionally, they will not be allowed to use any materials that are not first recycled at least 5 times, and no petrochemical materials can be used for insulation.

  5. “Ben & Jerry’s”
    Owned by the foreign conglomerate “Unilever”.
    Boycotter of Israel.

  6. When you mix dog shit with a milkshake what do you expect. How do you compromise with a rapist? Corporations are manned with “communications” departments whose spin doctors hail from the finest higher institutions of cultural Marxist indoctrination and enthusiastically pimp the decline of their employers. Their MBAs aren’t much better as they hold rent seeking as a perfectly morally acceptable activity and then complain about the fascism they have fostered.

    I’m amazed that the corporate suits that think they are gaming the system by meeting the epistemological mush of ESG by conceding that Carbon is evil by capturing it to neutralize the carbon budget of the “production” of Oil and gas, not realizing that the other side is twice as clever and evil and even the mindless Eloi know that it is the “use” of their products that adds CO2 to the atmosphere. It also allows the survival of all humans on the planet living above the standard of sub Saharan tribes but that’s a bit radical a message for moral cowards.

    This subject underscores the essence of conservatism, the fatally compromised libertarians that believe in the necessity of that shitty milkshake.

    1. Just wait until the Maunder Minimum starts to really kick in .
      These azzhats will be climbing all over each other for some precious carbon to keep them warm and the tractors running on the farms to keep their pieholes filled.

  7. Instead of spending on Carbon Capture why dont we invest those billions of dollars on fleets of WATER BOMBERS so we can rapidly put out forest fires around the world and stop the release of millions upon millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere every year?

    1. How can Canada afford all this?
      They absolutely can’t.
      We have nothing exportable because it’s against the law to use any part of our environment.
      Government approval keeps getting deferred for years.

    2. Water Bombers, unless deployed within minutes of a fire being started, don’t put out forest fires. They are used to control progression by limiting growth in strategic locations, protecting structures, preventing edges from growing, pinching off segments, cooling down areas to facilitate ground crews, etc. Using sufficient bombers to actually extinguish large fires would add more carbon than the fires. Such an air force would make even Curtis LeMay envious.

      1. Absolutely.
        That’s what forest management is for, keep overgrowth down in the areas you wish to harvest.

        Besides forest fires are good for regeneration of the forests.
        It has been going on for millions of years.
        Just the constant churn, ebb and flow of life on this planet for eons, until we showed up.
        Thinking we could meddle with forces we know NOTHING about.
        Everytime man touches something with the aim to change it, it turns to shit.

  8. Giving society cheap, abundant energy … would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. – Paul Ehrlich

    It’s not hyperbole to say these people want you dead – their goal is not to get rid of dirty energy and replace it with clean energy, their goal is to get rid of dirty energy and replace it with nothing. They want humanity to be returned to the Eden of a hunter/gatherer society and, since the carrying capacity of the planet under such conditions is estimated to be around 600 million, well, about 7 billion of you are going to have to find somewhere else to live.

  9. First, the so-called “environmental movement” has little to nothing to do with the environment. It’s a flag Marxists wrap themselves in to camouflage their real agenda. Second, the NRA has exactly the right strategy for dealing with these little fascists i.e. never give an inch. There is no give and take. It’s all take on their part and you get absolutely nothing in return.

  10. What CO2 humanity produces, is a pittance compared to what the planet produces via Volcanoes. Forest fires do add to that as well, but only a small amount. Compared to the machinations of the planet, we humans are just part of the moldy verdigris on the planets surface, along with the rest of the flora and fauna. The useful idiot ramblings of the Greenies are just foot soldier noise supporting the World Economic Forum/Davos elite crowd. They will be deleted, once the WEF have put their new feudal technocracy in place, and gain global control of the western part of the planet. After that, the squabble between the WEF and China might be interesting to observe, but none of us will be here to see it.

  11. Obtuse old hippies reaffirming their green purity. It seems to me that ice-cream would be on that list of first world luxury products that would be one of the first products declared too decadent and forbidden if the green fascists ever completely take over.

  12. “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” ~ Ayn Rand

    “In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.” ~ Ayn Rand

  13. “When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.” ~ Ayn Rand

    There was an early comment by a less than intelligent individual early on. “A compromise is always a loss for one side of the compromise.”

    There are none so blind, as those who refuse to see.

  14. Despite nuclear energy being a grandchild, 47 generations removed from Man’s Discovery of Fire, incrementalism is dead.

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