i forgot the fires.

i apologize for the oversight.

dear california,

you are not going to ship water from around the world to save yourself. you are going to collapse amidst heat waves and droughts, and most of you are going to die. then, the earth will swallow you and spit you into the ocean, because you're a bunch of assholes, anyways.

you'll have to deal with that.

i don't fucking care.

canada should focus on integrating the great lake megalopolis and the bos-wash / new england mega region and forget about arizona bay. 

the civilization is unsustainable, and it will and should collapse, and we should not try to save them or help.

energy efficiency will have no benefit to the climate.

if we're not doing transition, you're just getting ripped off for profit.

it's transition, or barbarism.

carbon is not a currency.

you can't "save emissions". you can't trade them. you can't offset them. you can't store them for later. that's all a bunch of bullshit.

the idea that energy conservation is going to reverse or slow down climate change is fundamentally wrong and a misunderstanding of climate science perpetuated by stupid conservatives that want everything to be a family budget, because they can't understand anything else.

no, carbon emissions are not like your grocery bill. that's retarded.

carbon transition is not about saving the carbon to burn it later, it's about eliminating carbon as an energy source altogether, and relying on sources like hydro and geothermal. carbon transition will get nowhere if it's bogged down by conservatives confusing the issue and reducing it to energy conservation.

further, electrical use has nothing to do with the climate at all. there is no reason to minimize electrical usage, unless you're stuck in the industrial era, and haven't converted your grid to renewables, in which case i pity your country. you should be converting your grid, not reducing electricity.

likewise, fresh water is a renewable and plentiful resource, unless you're dumb enough to try to live in a desert, in which case you should correctly die of thirst. california is thirsty? well, that's what happens when you build a civilization in a desert, you fucking retards. yes, you're all going to die, and you all deserve to die, too. what does that have to do with a sustainable society in the great lakes? we don't need to "save water". it's everywhere and it's renewable. california can go fuck itself.

whether you burn x amount of carbon now or burn x - y now, and y later, makes no effect to the climate. climate change is not about the rate of emissions, it's about the sum of emissions. if you're going to burn it anyways, you'd might as well burn it all now. burning it slower won't make any difference to the climate.

...because the climate is not an economist. the climate doesn't give a fuck about your homo economicus bullshit.

the group that does care about this is energy speculators and energy investors, who profit from artificial scarcity. this warped climate logic is perfectly good economic logic and if they can trick you into it they can inflate energy prices, and make you think saving it saves the planet, when it really just rips you off.

carbon taxes are not intended for you to reduce your energy use, they're intended to get you to change your energy source. but people didn't understand, and maybe it wasn't specific enough for them to.