{"id":20261,"date":"2013-05-15T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20261"},"modified":"2013-05-14T16:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:25:14","slug":"canadians-hypocrisy-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/canadians-hypocrisy-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians&#8217; hypocrisy on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gordon fired off a tweetstorm yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Politicians have to deal with an unpleasant climate change fact: Canadian voters are rank hypocrites. We are willing to do &#8230; (1\/n)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334409960924512256\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&#8230; whatever it takes to reduce greenhouse gases &#8211; everything except suffer personal incovenience. Regulations are popular because &#8230; (2\/n)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334410252009213952\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>.. politicians can claim that since they aren&#8217;t taking any $$ in, consumers won&#8217;t be paying more. Cap-and-trade is popular because &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334410499729027073\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&#8230; politicans can claim that only Big Polluters (ptew! ptew!) will pay, and not consumers. Both claims are demonstably false, yet those &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334410804235493376\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>.. narratives are the only ones that can survive, given our manifest unwillingness to face the fact that real climate change action ..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334411058695524352\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&#8230; involves accepting personal inceonvenience. No politician wins votes by saying &#8220;you people are hypocrites&#8221;, so these fictions &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334411365911498752\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&#8230; will dominate Canadian climate change discussions until Canadians accept their responsibilities. That is to say, never. \/rant<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/334411608153538560\">May 14, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gordon fired off a tweetstorm yesterday: Politicians have to deal with an unpleasant climate change fact: Canadian voters are rank hypocrites. We are willing to do &#8230; (1\/n) &mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) May 14, 2013 &#8230; whatever it takes to reduce greenhouse gases &#8211; everything except suffer personal incovenience. 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