I used to live in a place that was somewhere between suburb and rural and I loved not being around people but I hated not being able to walk to get basic necessities. Now I live in the city and I have everything I could ever need within a 15 minute walk and I get to choose whether I pay for a car, a licence, plates, insurance, gas, maintenance and repair. This system really has us fucked into believing that this is the way it should be.
That's why the rights of people today shouldn't be dictated by a document written over a century ago. Idolizing a document over human rights is terrible.
Funnily enough, most of our heating is done using baseboard heaters, or resistance heating. Newer constructions have heat pump/air conditioning combos but I don't know exactly how widespread they are, my parents have one and it's definitely more efficient than the baseboard heaters, but not by a huge margin.
I don't know if you know his channel, but Technology Connections did a couple of videos on heat pumps that were pretty eye opening, I imagine as much for Americans who have been hit hard by gas and oil lobbying, as for me as a Canadian who hasn't ever really seen anything other than electric heating.
So in Montreal everything runs off of electric heat and it gets super cold out and it's pretty warm indoors with the heating running on super low. Maybe you guys just don't know how to use electric heating properly.
And when he was president he regularly tried to outlaw protests, tear gasses them, etc. Not to mention a Trump presidency costed Roe v Wade and stacked the supreme Court with bought and sold Christofascists. I didn't say he never was president, I said he'll straight up outlaw protests the next time he is, which he was well on his way to doing the last time.
This is why the simple existence of billionaires is violence. You simply cannot become filthy rich without profiting off of the suffering of others. This motherfucker could pay people enough to never have to even consider sleeping on a factory floor. Hell, he could probably double his workforce and still pay that well and be filthy rich.
Haven't read the article, I'm gonna guess it's pressure from corporations losing profits.
Edit: yup.
Meanwhile, BC United has committed to scrap the CleanBC plan, saying it “will kill jobs, kill paycheques, kill billions in funding for vital public services and plunge our province into a recession.”
Aaand that's how they're gonna get the reactionaries to do their dirty work for them on social media. People will gladly blame a climate policy that will give their kids a better planet before they blame the corporation who cuts their wages and offloads their shrinking profits directly onto the workers.
I'm actually all for the anti-Elon sentiment, I support this because I fucking hate animals. /s