Too many, even good thinkers on the right, think of the AGW agenda as a tax grab - via energy taxes. It isn’t. It is a return to feudal times via bureaucratism. BC has Step Code. Every building moving forward has to be at Net Zero or getting there. It is very expensive and likely not doable across the market. Worse, it makes for dark and ugly buildings. The bureaucrats are strangling production. The bureaucracy now is mostly women and gays. And they hate production, which many in those two groups, if left, rightfully associate with hetero masculinity. Victoria was actually pretty good until the last five years or so. The bureaucracy was mostly reasonably practical people you could work with. Slowly but surely though one gatekeeper after another has thrown her roadblocks in the way of activity. If 20 people touch your product it only takes two or three to ruin it. You can and do get caught in an endless loop of being sent back through the channels as someone makes you redo something. It is a mess.
In my city that is the way it is. And likewise, surprisingly, up until Five years ago the city staff were reasonable and practical. They aren’t now. But that is more recent.
This made my morning on this dreary day. There is no one out there with Elizabeth's depth of knowledge. She gets to the nitty gritty and does it so eloquently and with class. A very unusual individual for whom I am grateful to have found.
I watched your interview by Frontier (I receive their email updates), over a couple of days, not because it was difficult, but because I wanted to think about it and then come back to it.
I had also read your book Eco Fascism, and I think you are so, so, correct about where we are. I noted your comment in the interview that the division of the family over opinions is a deliberate and effective way to stop essential conversation, vital communication. Trudeau was-is especially good at fomenting division, that tactic is still so useful to him we can count on him saying the opposite of what is truthful.
In the 90's I was teaching at a college where immigrants and and newly-created refugees over another one of the U..S. but always Canada-supported warring destruction would send people scattering and fleeing. A student would have a brother in Norway, a sister in Sweden, mother and father in Somewhere, the world. From them I learned what was actually happening versus the press colluding with government. Destroy the family; destroy the community; destroy the county; tell false tales; take the land; burn it all down. Yipee!
Hello,new reader here. Curious, would Phelps, NY be your family's gift to the finger lakes? I am formerly from Rochester, spent a lot of time on flint crick, and was curious. Btw, you seem to be speaking to me, so I will rearrange some of my subscriptions.
Well a billion is exaggeration for effect. But BC is massive and only 6% developed. Good development would look like central European cities with wonderful towns and countryside, and still much wilderness. Not pack em and stsckem boxes that I flew over yesterday.
This proxy war is merely evidence destruction. Everything in that forlorn country has the deep states fingerprints all over it, ever their government. So Russia, and I believe PDT, decided it was a good place to tackle the cabal. Unfortunately for the world, PDT was illegally deposed, to prevent the possibility of Russia and the USA becoming allies. And the UN being dumped by the USA. And half of the cabal being prosecuted for crimes against humanity. And Nato being turned into a useless group of nobodies.
The link to youtube on your substack page requires what Alphabet Inc calls "Google Widevine." I'm using brave and whenever google (or anybody else) wants to install software that (so they say) enables better performance of their application, brave interrupts an otherwise automatic installation and give me the choice to decline. The rumble video link played just fine without google snooping. Thanks for taking the time to do that interview. I ordered the Anne Collins book you referenced, "In The Sleep Room." Keep on rockin'
Back when Edward Snowden was dumping all his info about what NSA & CIA and all the rest of the 'intelligence community' are doing, Snowden said, "In my line of work, things like google, twitter, facebook & instagram are called surveillance tools."
There ain't no telling what google built into that thing they call 'Widevine.' I'm thinking they're giving a big hint with the name. Widevine: wrapping its digital tendrils tightly around every keystroke and clik I make online. It's the nature of the beast. At least I'm aware...
Wife and I went online first time in 1995. It took 5 different specialists a week to get us service from ATT's servers to our apt. I told Wife then, "The next 18 months or so will be the very best time anybody will ever have online. After that, the spies are gonna start diggin' in and everybody will be looking over their shoulder." Widevine and other such applications will only become more invasive. How long will it be before "it's against the law" to ever turn off your computer?
The whole earth is severely in need of an upgrade, a spiritual upgrade. Stay tuned, MizTeresa
I read your heartfelt and inspirational presentation while sitting at my computer in front of windows that look back across fields that were once farmed by my father in a small rural community, South Esk, NB, founded by a determined, hard working and crusty lot of Scots who immigrated to this area in the late 1700s and early 1800s. I am a descendent of David Goodfellow who arrived in the late 1700s and died an old man along with his daughter and her children in the Miramichi fire of 1825 which killed hundreds and destroyed a thriving shipbuilding industry. And a half-mile down the road is the MacTavish Farm, a stone house built by my Mother's family, a John MacTavish, using the stone brought from Scotland as ship's ballast. The MacTavish Farm was owned in the early1960s by Lord Beaverbrook, better know as Max Aiken, who was another influential Scot from his area who became a press baron in England and in charge of Spitfire production in the early stages of WWII. So I appreciate the fascinating history of your family because it provides insight into the character and entrepreneurial spirit of the people who helped build the US and Canada.
This is so so sad. It's happening on the east coast in the US too. I grew up in rural eastern Connecticut and just experienced much of what you describe in the "Two Generations to Lose it All" post. So shocking, all the regulation, the redistricting, rebranding, shut down of farming and forestry, blatant theft by courts and "government officials." I can't believe the times we are living through. Keep fighting. Thanks.
This discussion—and all your hard work on this—needs to be widely circulated in Australia which appears to have fully lost its mind. That country’s infatuation with green energy will be its end and like most things will happen slowly at first and then quickly. It’s selling all its uranium overseas but banned use of nuclear energy in its own backyard out of its eco zeal. Now it’s heavily subsidized wind + solar which will require thousands of acres of power lines and leadership is hell-bent on steeling farmers’ lands to install them. But it’s happening everywhere now, for one reason or another, people want to drive you off your land. Look at Hawaii!
The insanity of it takes your breath away on a daily basis.
Hi Elizabeth. I watched the video early this morning, but just getting back to comment now:
I admit that I tend to feel as your dinner guests do: I mourn the urban sprawl that's eaten up so much farmland here in Southwestern BC. I miss the wilderness that used to be Tofino and Uclelet. Now, paved pay parking lots border the beach I used to camp on, and the chemical smell of scented dryer-sheets wafts from houses along another beach. Suffice to say I suffer disenchantment: the Earth's wonders, for me, have been crowded out by the jump in Earth's population from 2.5 billion, when I was born, to 8 billion souls. Nearly a fourfold increase.
You and I are both extremely fortunate to live in semi-rural, Coastal BC. Like you, I avoid the nearest (to me) metropolis of Vancouver. I used to think the concept of "Smart Cities" a good one, in terms of leaving large swathes to nature; that was before we knew about The Great Reset.
So I don't know. I guess it's selfish to want an unspoiled, mysterious, moderately populated earth home. Ideally there'd be a compromise between Schwab's vision (a half billion serfs) and exponential growth every generation. And a different model altogether than mega-cities and soul-less bedroom communities. I'm thinking more like villages and hamlets, each one fairly self-sufficient in most respects of daily living.
Also; before "climate change" was invented, I think we were right, don't you, in opposing the vastly destructive clearcuts that went on unchecked? And what about the over-fishing that's depleted the seafood stocks; we can't pretend that massive environmental destruction hasn't happened.
I especially appreciate your depictions of growing up amongst the wealthy, and their phrase "the many too many." That really brings home the reality of Thomas Sowell's book title "The Vision of the Anointed." In other words, they really do believe they're a different species of human, to us.
Lots more in that interview but these were my main thoughts.
Clear cuts fill in and acted as fire breaks. Foresters used to clean up the forests, clear the creeks, replant probably, forestry is very complex and we were hornswoggled by highly trained and paid activists acting for the very rich. Wilderness is still available, but probably not with hotels, everywhere in BC. We haven’t been able to create new tourist spots. All development has been stopped. I don’t like urban sprawl, but most people seem to like living in mega cities. I did until I was 50. Ideally people would be able to live in smaller cities, and small towns but that has been stopped, again by the very rich. The US is only 10% developed, BC 6%. The desire for everything to be the same has been manipulated. BC could be a magnificent hugely wealthy innovative place. It is not. The bottom 80% are being methodically crushed. And the insistence on no growth no development no resource use has led to our economy being dominated by the worst crime imaginable.
I do remember that slash-burning was a practice, which then I think was stopped for the false belief that it was unnecessary or something, or that it caused too much air pollution. Now I see that it was a way to keep the ground healthy for the next growth, and reduce the chance of future fires. Anyway, I meant to say, too, that even though I'd prefer fewer people on the earth at a time, I'd never advocate mass murder to get there!!!
When I first came back to BC I could understand that there were unfortunate practices, but the “crime” that precipitated the protests was caused by government pulling leases, so everyone clear cut at the same time to get their money out. The point of these people, behind the green, was hard core envy and socialism. And behind that were very rich people setting land aside for themselves in 50 years. As we may live to see. To pay down our hideous debt
Wow, that sheds a whole new light on things, that I never knew, about the greedy race to cut being due to government actions...and all the rest of it, too. What an effing mess.
Imagine, as mis Elizabeth has said, BC could support a billion people. When you think there needs to be less of us, it's time to get outside. Because we are dust on a sugar donut. In a donut factory. And the only ones we hear from, reside in cities. They are the ones concerned that there won't be enough left for them. I'm hoping for the next revolution. I don't think our predecessors were building this.
Well,yeah. Same here.I've watched my small town in Florida turn into parking lot for Disney attendees, but that's because of migration, not overpopulation. My point is 99 % of the world is unpopulated. It's hard to fathom, but it's true.
In fact, even though Florida is buried in humanity on both coasts and that horrid little fun camp for pedophiles, all I have to do is drive five miles inland, to find absolutely nothing and no one. Gators, bass, swamps. Birds. Lots of birds. And I live on the east coast, where I get to go away from all the rot by boat. And as much as people try to overwhelm us here, they won't live in swamps, with gators, and the waterfronts are pretty much locked down to parks, beaches and such. I used to feel the same way, especially as the traffic here became almost unbearable. And then realized it was my choice to live here,and it's easy to get away. As it is for most.
Does that 99% include the oceans, the Arctic and the Antarctic, the Sahara and other deserts, your Florida swamps, the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, etc etc?... I'm sure you catch my drift😉
Too many, even good thinkers on the right, think of the AGW agenda as a tax grab - via energy taxes. It isn’t. It is a return to feudal times via bureaucratism. BC has Step Code. Every building moving forward has to be at Net Zero or getting there. It is very expensive and likely not doable across the market. Worse, it makes for dark and ugly buildings. The bureaucrats are strangling production. The bureaucracy now is mostly women and gays. And they hate production, which many in those two groups, if left, rightfully associate with hetero masculinity. Victoria was actually pretty good until the last five years or so. The bureaucracy was mostly reasonably practical people you could work with. Slowly but surely though one gatekeeper after another has thrown her roadblocks in the way of activity. If 20 people touch your product it only takes two or three to ruin it. You can and do get caught in an endless loop of being sent back through the channels as someone makes you redo something. It is a mess.
I do not know how you stand it. And we need 2.5 million new houses. However the point is stack em and pack em in soulless boxes.
In my city that is the way it is. And likewise, surprisingly, up until Five years ago the city staff were reasonable and practical. They aren’t now. But that is more recent.
This made my morning on this dreary day. There is no one out there with Elizabeth's depth of knowledge. She gets to the nitty gritty and does it so eloquently and with class. A very unusual individual for whom I am grateful to have found.
Thank you, again, for more of your work.
I watched your interview by Frontier (I receive their email updates), over a couple of days, not because it was difficult, but because I wanted to think about it and then come back to it.
I had also read your book Eco Fascism, and I think you are so, so, correct about where we are. I noted your comment in the interview that the division of the family over opinions is a deliberate and effective way to stop essential conversation, vital communication. Trudeau was-is especially good at fomenting division, that tactic is still so useful to him we can count on him saying the opposite of what is truthful.
In the 90's I was teaching at a college where immigrants and and newly-created refugees over another one of the U..S. but always Canada-supported warring destruction would send people scattering and fleeing. A student would have a brother in Norway, a sister in Sweden, mother and father in Somewhere, the world. From them I learned what was actually happening versus the press colluding with government. Destroy the family; destroy the community; destroy the county; tell false tales; take the land; burn it all down. Yipee!
Hello,new reader here. Curious, would Phelps, NY be your family's gift to the finger lakes? I am formerly from Rochester, spent a lot of time on flint crick, and was curious. Btw, you seem to be speaking to me, so I will rearrange some of my subscriptions.
Yes! That is where my branch of the Phelps family settled
Well a billion is exaggeration for effect. But BC is massive and only 6% developed. Good development would look like central European cities with wonderful towns and countryside, and still much wilderness. Not pack em and stsckem boxes that I flew over yesterday.
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Lrics+to+steppenwolfs+Monster&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
I think I have finally come up with a macro way of looking at the war between the US and Russia/China.
Ukraine is merely the unfortunate location of the war, like Spain in the thirties served as a way for various bigger powers to wage a proxy war.
The US-led West is the confederacy, i.e., racist and agrarian (agrarian is where the climate crazies are taking us).
Russia-China are ascendant industrial powers, like the north was.
Will this proxy war in Ukraine lead to the defeat of the neo-confederates? Unknown but possible. What then?
This proxy war is merely evidence destruction. Everything in that forlorn country has the deep states fingerprints all over it, ever their government. So Russia, and I believe PDT, decided it was a good place to tackle the cabal. Unfortunately for the world, PDT was illegally deposed, to prevent the possibility of Russia and the USA becoming allies. And the UN being dumped by the USA. And half of the cabal being prosecuted for crimes against humanity. And Nato being turned into a useless group of nobodies.
Who/what is PDT?
President Donald Trump
Exactly. 100%
The link to youtube on your substack page requires what Alphabet Inc calls "Google Widevine." I'm using brave and whenever google (or anybody else) wants to install software that (so they say) enables better performance of their application, brave interrupts an otherwise automatic installation and give me the choice to decline. The rumble video link played just fine without google snooping. Thanks for taking the time to do that interview. I ordered the Anne Collins book you referenced, "In The Sleep Room." Keep on rockin'
Back when Edward Snowden was dumping all his info about what NSA & CIA and all the rest of the 'intelligence community' are doing, Snowden said, "In my line of work, things like google, twitter, facebook & instagram are called surveillance tools."
There ain't no telling what google built into that thing they call 'Widevine.' I'm thinking they're giving a big hint with the name. Widevine: wrapping its digital tendrils tightly around every keystroke and clik I make online. It's the nature of the beast. At least I'm aware...
Wife and I went online first time in 1995. It took 5 different specialists a week to get us service from ATT's servers to our apt. I told Wife then, "The next 18 months or so will be the very best time anybody will ever have online. After that, the spies are gonna start diggin' in and everybody will be looking over their shoulder." Widevine and other such applications will only become more invasive. How long will it be before "it's against the law" to ever turn off your computer?
The whole earth is severely in need of an upgrade, a spiritual upgrade. Stay tuned, MizTeresa
I read your heartfelt and inspirational presentation while sitting at my computer in front of windows that look back across fields that were once farmed by my father in a small rural community, South Esk, NB, founded by a determined, hard working and crusty lot of Scots who immigrated to this area in the late 1700s and early 1800s. I am a descendent of David Goodfellow who arrived in the late 1700s and died an old man along with his daughter and her children in the Miramichi fire of 1825 which killed hundreds and destroyed a thriving shipbuilding industry. And a half-mile down the road is the MacTavish Farm, a stone house built by my Mother's family, a John MacTavish, using the stone brought from Scotland as ship's ballast. The MacTavish Farm was owned in the early1960s by Lord Beaverbrook, better know as Max Aiken, who was another influential Scot from his area who became a press baron in England and in charge of Spitfire production in the early stages of WWII. So I appreciate the fascinating history of your family because it provides insight into the character and entrepreneurial spirit of the people who helped build the US and Canada.
Wow. Another great post! I just finished the embedded video. It should be required viewing for all schools.
This is so so sad. It's happening on the east coast in the US too. I grew up in rural eastern Connecticut and just experienced much of what you describe in the "Two Generations to Lose it All" post. So shocking, all the regulation, the redistricting, rebranding, shut down of farming and forestry, blatant theft by courts and "government officials." I can't believe the times we are living through. Keep fighting. Thanks.
Excellent discussion, Elizabeth. A splendid, informative hour!
This discussion—and all your hard work on this—needs to be widely circulated in Australia which appears to have fully lost its mind. That country’s infatuation with green energy will be its end and like most things will happen slowly at first and then quickly. It’s selling all its uranium overseas but banned use of nuclear energy in its own backyard out of its eco zeal. Now it’s heavily subsidized wind + solar which will require thousands of acres of power lines and leadership is hell-bent on steeling farmers’ lands to install them. But it’s happening everywhere now, for one reason or another, people want to drive you off your land. Look at Hawaii!
The insanity of it takes your breath away on a daily basis.
Looking forward to listening to the podcast.
Hi Elizabeth. I watched the video early this morning, but just getting back to comment now:
I admit that I tend to feel as your dinner guests do: I mourn the urban sprawl that's eaten up so much farmland here in Southwestern BC. I miss the wilderness that used to be Tofino and Uclelet. Now, paved pay parking lots border the beach I used to camp on, and the chemical smell of scented dryer-sheets wafts from houses along another beach. Suffice to say I suffer disenchantment: the Earth's wonders, for me, have been crowded out by the jump in Earth's population from 2.5 billion, when I was born, to 8 billion souls. Nearly a fourfold increase.
You and I are both extremely fortunate to live in semi-rural, Coastal BC. Like you, I avoid the nearest (to me) metropolis of Vancouver. I used to think the concept of "Smart Cities" a good one, in terms of leaving large swathes to nature; that was before we knew about The Great Reset.
So I don't know. I guess it's selfish to want an unspoiled, mysterious, moderately populated earth home. Ideally there'd be a compromise between Schwab's vision (a half billion serfs) and exponential growth every generation. And a different model altogether than mega-cities and soul-less bedroom communities. I'm thinking more like villages and hamlets, each one fairly self-sufficient in most respects of daily living.
Also; before "climate change" was invented, I think we were right, don't you, in opposing the vastly destructive clearcuts that went on unchecked? And what about the over-fishing that's depleted the seafood stocks; we can't pretend that massive environmental destruction hasn't happened.
I especially appreciate your depictions of growing up amongst the wealthy, and their phrase "the many too many." That really brings home the reality of Thomas Sowell's book title "The Vision of the Anointed." In other words, they really do believe they're a different species of human, to us.
Lots more in that interview but these were my main thoughts.
Clear cuts fill in and acted as fire breaks. Foresters used to clean up the forests, clear the creeks, replant probably, forestry is very complex and we were hornswoggled by highly trained and paid activists acting for the very rich. Wilderness is still available, but probably not with hotels, everywhere in BC. We haven’t been able to create new tourist spots. All development has been stopped. I don’t like urban sprawl, but most people seem to like living in mega cities. I did until I was 50. Ideally people would be able to live in smaller cities, and small towns but that has been stopped, again by the very rich. The US is only 10% developed, BC 6%. The desire for everything to be the same has been manipulated. BC could be a magnificent hugely wealthy innovative place. It is not. The bottom 80% are being methodically crushed. And the insistence on no growth no development no resource use has led to our economy being dominated by the worst crime imaginable.
I do remember that slash-burning was a practice, which then I think was stopped for the false belief that it was unnecessary or something, or that it caused too much air pollution. Now I see that it was a way to keep the ground healthy for the next growth, and reduce the chance of future fires. Anyway, I meant to say, too, that even though I'd prefer fewer people on the earth at a time, I'd never advocate mass murder to get there!!!
When I first came back to BC I could understand that there were unfortunate practices, but the “crime” that precipitated the protests was caused by government pulling leases, so everyone clear cut at the same time to get their money out. The point of these people, behind the green, was hard core envy and socialism. And behind that were very rich people setting land aside for themselves in 50 years. As we may live to see. To pay down our hideous debt
Wow, that sheds a whole new light on things, that I never knew, about the greedy race to cut being due to government actions...and all the rest of it, too. What an effing mess.
Imagine, as mis Elizabeth has said, BC could support a billion people. When you think there needs to be less of us, it's time to get outside. Because we are dust on a sugar donut. In a donut factory. And the only ones we hear from, reside in cities. They are the ones concerned that there won't be enough left for them. I'm hoping for the next revolution. I don't think our predecessors were building this.
thanks, but I'd choose to self-eject from such a crowded room (a billion in bc)
Well,yeah. Same here.I've watched my small town in Florida turn into parking lot for Disney attendees, but that's because of migration, not overpopulation. My point is 99 % of the world is unpopulated. It's hard to fathom, but it's true.
In fact, even though Florida is buried in humanity on both coasts and that horrid little fun camp for pedophiles, all I have to do is drive five miles inland, to find absolutely nothing and no one. Gators, bass, swamps. Birds. Lots of birds. And I live on the east coast, where I get to go away from all the rot by boat. And as much as people try to overwhelm us here, they won't live in swamps, with gators, and the waterfronts are pretty much locked down to parks, beaches and such. I used to feel the same way, especially as the traffic here became almost unbearable. And then realized it was my choice to live here,and it's easy to get away. As it is for most.
Does that 99% include the oceans, the Arctic and the Antarctic, the Sahara and other deserts, your Florida swamps, the Grand Canyon, the Rocky Mountains, etc etc?... I'm sure you catch my drift😉
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