CANADA´S TAR SANDS CRAPVELOPMENT: FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE STARTS IN YOUR HEAD

Dead lakes: Tar sands project in Alberta (Canada). Source: 2Solitudes.

By Gundhramns Hammer
June 8, 2014 
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Greedy entrepreneurs, their lobbyists and politicians refer to the oil extraction out of the sands as "development" or "prosperity" in Alberta (Canada).

But can this business of tearing up and poisoning the environment in Canada be really called "development"?

Let us be honest, the Alberta tar sands project is fucking up Mother Nature and therefore deserves another name. 

We call it Canada´s oil sands crapvelopment (Video 1).

Video 1. Crude awakening.

The Alberta oil sands business is a crapvelopment because:

• Destroys the boreal forest, 
• Kills biodiversity,
• Poisons the air, water and soil,
• Creates humongous toxic sludge lakes,
• The toxic lakes have a negative impact on wildlife, especially migratory birds and fish.
• Changes aquatic ecosystems (hydrology, water quality, aquatic habitat, etc.),
• Has a great negative impact on human and animal health,
• Has a giant carbon footprint, 
• Produces green house gases, and
• Affects global warming. 

Hatch & Price (2008) of the Environmental Defence organisation considers Canada´s toxic tar sands "the most destructive project on Earth".

Fighting climate change starts in your head

Considering that climate change is a fact, according to a recent report from the US. Government, now is the time for you to act.

So, next time your desperado worm in your head is bugging you to the point of depression and to appease it you feel like going out and the worm keeps drilling and drilling in your head until you finally cannot stand it anymore and hit the road with your car and go shopping for more crap you do not need, for your closets are already bursting with stuff, then be rational, think it twice.

Remember, gasoline produces 8.92 kgCO₂/USGallon plus other environmental, economic and social implications and connections with worldwide reconnections that may even get deep into the secret roots of phantom firms somewhere in a tax haven.

Stay put at home. Quit jacking around with your car. Be brave and take the bull by the horns.

Fighting climate change and Alberta´s tar sands project starts in your head. 

Getting to know yourself and what makes you restless and desperate so you cannot stand your loneliness and desconnection with the whole Universe will definitely reduce your consumption, your trips to the store to buy what you do not need anymore and your travelling abroad to calm down your psychological desperation or depression only for a few days.

Quit talking bullshit. We already have too much of that. It is time to act.

Go ahead, say fuck to your desperado worm in your head!

Be part of the change!

Glossary

Crapvelopment: The act or process of messing up, polluting, destroying or fucking up the natural environment. The act of defecation or crapping on the mother of all mothers: Mother Nature. 

It derives from Latin crappa = chaff + Vulgar Latin vlopp, to wrap up, which in turns comes from Proto-Germanic wrappan = to wrap, roll up, turn, wind, according to the Wiktionary.


References

Environmental Research and Studies Centre (2007). Running out of Steam? Oil Sands Development and Water Use in the Athabasca River-Watershed: Science and Market bases Solutions. University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. 58 p.

Hatch C. & Price M. (2008). Canada´s Toxic Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project on Earth. Environmental Defence, Toronto, ON, Canada. 27 p.

Mech M. (2011). A Comprehensive Guide to the Alberta Oil Sands: Understanding the Environmental and Human Impacts, Export Implications, and Political, Economic, and Industry Inflences. The Green Party, Ottawa, ON, Canada. 109 p.