Global economic slowdown? No problem? Let me kidney-punch you in the tourism. Now it’s a problem!

“Suspicions” seems an abuse of the word at this point.

Curious. I love you and I never even met you.

Tell my wife I said “Hello”.

I remember reading an article is a pop psychology magazine talking about the emergence of what was dubbed “climate anxiety”. The APA decided it did not belong in the DSM-V because it was not a mental illness, rather a natural healthy response to an overwhelmingly damaging and intractable threat.

Or just dump them. (Drugs and Alcohol) /s

“Set nav straight into the sun. Maximum thrust!”

Laws? How quaint.

Laws? How quaint.

The vice president, who is was Catholic, discovers excommunication.

You can’t solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation’s ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.

Even the stupidest novelties sometimes have the seeds of brilliance.

What starts with in-vehicle toilet may very well lead to the hottest high profit margin and must have accessory: Take a fresh in-car shit, then launch it at the driver who just wronged you.

"Keep your road rage off the streets and in the seats! "

The engineers dubbed it “Project Battleshits” but most of us doubt that will pass through marketing.

True. True. But to be fair, the old one wasn’t fit for purpose either. Lovely science, but still couldn’t do anything about it.

it’d be nice to have some idea of where might be a good place to move to, if this is as inevitable as it sounds.

Not as nice as you think. You could dodge harsher winters, an energy crunch and crop failures, just to move to somewhere with heatstress, drought and cropfailures.

We must not view climate as the thing to watch. It’s one part of a larger complex system of systems. Changes in the AMOC can trigger changes elsewhere, and more importantly, elsewhere is changing on its own too. Not just because of emissions.

It’s a lot to digest, especially if you don’t have a background in ecology, biology, environmental sciences or systems theory. But a solid easy framework is planetary boundaries.

It’s all 9 boundaries together (plus any new ones discovered) that’s going to pickle us. We are exceeding 7 of the 9 identified so far and there are and will be severe consequences for having exceeded our planet’s limits.

I worry about climate change A LOT. I worry about Ecological Overshoot and Collapse due to Planetary Boundaries even more.

Ask Schumer what his real job is.

Thompson Reuters is controlled by the Thompson Family, Canada’s richest and famously aligned with conservative politics and funders of right wing think tanks.

None of this should be a surprise.

B-b-b-b-baby y-you ain’t s-s-seen n-nothing yet!

My chicky nuggies! ReeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeee

I am usually skeptical about you tubers, but this one was good. Clear thinking right on the spot.

One observation that surfaces from this video and has merit for Canadians to watch as policymakers decide what to do about the obvious unsustainable nature of the Canadian housing market:

Problem: the housing ladder has been pulled up and Canada’s youth effectively can’t access it. How can aging Canadians’ housing assets maintain that value if future generations can’t support its value?

Solution 1: Restoration - Policy supports gently rebalance to where housing declines eventually catch up to a reinvigored youth workforce and the population has a continuum of property succession. I.e. we lower the property ladder back to within reach.

Solution 2: Acceleration - We continue the disastrous path of the last 25 years and continue down the path of financialization of housing. Pension Funds, REITs, Hedge Funds end everyone between large corporate players to wealthy mom and pop investors will consolidate housing forever. I.e. The property ladder is burned forever.

Where things get interesting, is considering the global demographic decline of aging populations, both options aren’t far away from a major reckoning in absolute terms. #2, in my personal opinion is the more vulnerable. Holding onto declining housing asset and rental prices inside a demographic collapse is going to hot-potato hard. We would see a period of crushing rentierism, tearing the social fabric of the country resulting in severe withdrawl symptoms when such egregious malinvestments reveal their consequences.

Edit: spelling and clarity.