I fight it offensive sometimes that there blaming Canada because I hate to tar sands. They even put the Canadian flag in oil once which I found very offensive, but I know it's a good cause they should just try to be less offensive.
@phemefilms Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
@phemefilms Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
@CatapillarQueen Dont you find it more offensive that billion dollar companies are RAPING canadian land? dipping a peice of fabric in oil is not worse than destroying an area of canada the size of england, the fact that you just claimed that dipping a flag in oil is offensive is insane, if you looked at the tar sands, and how our government has supported it, you might just change your stance. the fact that you care about the idea of canada than canada is messed up.
@NowSmileForMe Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
We'll have to dig this oil up sooner or later. At some point, when other supplies get lower and lower and prices with rise. At that point, we'll dig it up anyway. So why not just dig it up now.
There is not going to be an infinite amount of time before we dig it up. Even if not in our lifetimes, it will stull be dug up at some point.
So whats the point? Just do it now and take advantage of it.
Well As they're going to run out "at some point" surely we should start funding and developing alternatives more seriously now. Because then even when the tar sands run out, which they will, there will have been alot less pollution and environmental destruction?
Absolutely. Which is why these people should not be clowning around on the street, but they should be in a garden shed or workshop working on new energy making technologies.
This clowning around is helping no-one. Its like listening to a bunch of people complain about a broken lightbulb and not actually doing anything about it.
If they are that bothered, they go and get education in engineering and find a solution
Yes, I agree with you to some degree about the clowning around. I was just really replying to you saying we might aswell dig it up. But awareness is the main issue and in alot of cases even if they were making new technologies no one would buy them while oil is readily available from sources such as tar sands.
@youvement It doesn't matter whether global warming 'has nothing to do with humans', there are still plenty of other reasons that the tar sands are ridiculous.
hate to say it global warming is a scam set up to tax us back to the stone age..do some research..Lord moncton and others. read the leaked emails that say the earth is getting cooler. has nothing to do with humans.
Yeah, except that Lord Monckton isn't a climate scientist. He doesn't even have a science degree. He studied classics. And he's never had a peer reviewed paper published, even though he's tried and claims he has.
I bet most of these people havnt even BEEN to canada.
1) Canada is massive and the tar sands is no where near Whistler. Not even in same province!
2) I spent over a year travelling around canada, The tar sounds area is nothing.
3) Stolen land. Whistler is a huge ski resort covering most of whistler and one side of blackcomb mountains, but it is a tiny speck on the map. Its nothing - miniscule.
Stolen land? The first nation people weren't doing anything with it in the first place!
obviously you've never been there, i've been there for 5 seasons. its a big resort in resort terms, but a speck in terms of BC. go to the top of whistler and see the curvature of the earth, literally 1000s of mountains around and you can only see 12 miles which is nothing.
they arnt living there? Jesus you've never been there, the first nation people are all on the coasts and have always have been
First, just because it's one mountain top, doesn't mean that stealing it was justified. Theft is theft even if it's 100 square meters or a 100 square kilometers.
Secondly, if you knew anything about Pacific Coast natives, the inland was occupied just as much as the coast. And further, you seem to be forgetting that these are the VANCOUVER Olympics which is placed on the land that was inhabited by the coast Salish people.
I think you are being pedantic. Its not stealing, because no one was there and there isn't really anything of use there either.
The first nationals are much more concerned with fishing rights and other areas of impact on their livihood.
My personal experience of them is they aren't very hospitable. I can remeber being at the vistor center in alert bay and made a donation to the community. Walked outside and a couple of guys spat on the floor at me. Nice. Lost my vote.
IF no one was there it wouldn't be stealing. Which was occupied.
In fact the leadership of 80 out of 200 BC native groups and countless of members of other native groups are protesting the Olympics because the lands were paid for by the Canadians... which, in fact, they promised to do according to their own legislature.
My experience is quite the opposite and so is my girlfriends who's doing her masters in anthropology in Native rights issues.
I suppose you are going to say that Shaun White's private halfpipe is also on stolen land too?
No one was there, no one had probably ever even set foot there before - ever
Its funny how they are making such a hoohar about the tiny piece of land that the olympics are on, but are not actually are not saying anything about the 99.9999% of the other land.
Where theres money, theres people wanting a slice.
What does tar sands have to do with the Olympics???? And is your group so desperate for attention, you need to highjack a stage that young athletes from around the world have sweated buckets and given blood and tears to achieve. How arrogant! How utterly vile!
@tarsansbro this video isn't criticising the sweating/bleeding/weeping athletes. check out the Indigenous Environmental Network for info about the corporate greenwashing of the Olympics by companies also involved in the environmental disaster of the tar sands.
I fight it offensive sometimes that there blaming Canada because I hate to tar sands. They even put the Canadian flag in oil once which I found very offensive, but I know it's a good cause they should just try to be less offensive.
CatapillarQueen 2 years ago
@CatapillarQueen
For this protest to be effective don't we need to cause some offence to those institutions involved in the environmental disaster of the tar sands?
Dipping a piece of cloth in oil seems fairly polite in comparison to the Canadian government's destruction of vast areas of your country.
phemefilms 2 years ago
@phemefilms Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
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@phemefilms Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
CatapillarQueen 1 year ago
@CatapillarQueen Dont you find it more offensive that billion dollar companies are RAPING canadian land? dipping a peice of fabric in oil is not worse than destroying an area of canada the size of england, the fact that you just claimed that dipping a flag in oil is offensive is insane, if you looked at the tar sands, and how our government has supported it, you might just change your stance. the fact that you care about the idea of canada than canada is messed up.
NowSmileForMe 1 year ago
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@NowSmileForMe Guys please don't get angry. I don't think you got exactly what I meant, I hate the tar sands there a shame on Canada. I live in Albert which makes it even more close to home. I guess I was being defensive because I'm so ashamed that one of the world's biggest polluters is in my country. I wish and could go and help you guys and I'm all for your cause, the tarsands MUST be stopped.
CatapillarQueen 1 year ago
I don't see what the problem is.
We'll have to dig this oil up sooner or later. At some point, when other supplies get lower and lower and prices with rise. At that point, we'll dig it up anyway. So why not just dig it up now.
There is not going to be an infinite amount of time before we dig it up. Even if not in our lifetimes, it will stull be dug up at some point.
So whats the point? Just do it now and take advantage of it.
eonuk 2 years ago
Well As they're going to run out "at some point" surely we should start funding and developing alternatives more seriously now. Because then even when the tar sands run out, which they will, there will have been alot less pollution and environmental destruction?
skasnotdead77 2 years ago 2
Absolutely. Which is why these people should not be clowning around on the street, but they should be in a garden shed or workshop working on new energy making technologies.
This clowning around is helping no-one. Its like listening to a bunch of people complain about a broken lightbulb and not actually doing anything about it.
If they are that bothered, they go and get education in engineering and find a solution
eonuk 2 years ago
Yes, I agree with you to some degree about the clowning around. I was just really replying to you saying we might aswell dig it up. But awareness is the main issue and in alot of cases even if they were making new technologies no one would buy them while oil is readily available from sources such as tar sands.
skasnotdead77 2 years ago
This is great! Well done!
@youvement It doesn't matter whether global warming 'has nothing to do with humans', there are still plenty of other reasons that the tar sands are ridiculous.
shangfastic 2 years ago
hate to say it global warming is a scam set up to tax us back to the stone age..do some research..Lord moncton and others. read the leaked emails that say the earth is getting cooler. has nothing to do with humans.
youvement 2 years ago
Yeah, except that Lord Monckton isn't a climate scientist. He doesn't even have a science degree. He studied classics. And he's never had a peer reviewed paper published, even though he's tried and claims he has.
domrowland 1 year ago
5 Stars and Favorited.
wearechangevancouver 2 years ago
I bet most of these people havnt even BEEN to canada.
1) Canada is massive and the tar sands is no where near Whistler. Not even in same province!
2) I spent over a year travelling around canada, The tar sounds area is nothing.
3) Stolen land. Whistler is a huge ski resort covering most of whistler and one side of blackcomb mountains, but it is a tiny speck on the map. Its nothing - miniscule.
Stolen land? The first nation people weren't doing anything with it in the first place!
eonuk 2 years ago
Wow... that's just... dumb. Frankly. Ok...
1) That really is beside the point the video is trying to make.
2) Tar sands are 141,000 sq km in size. Compare that to England - 130,000 sq km.
3) So it's both huge and tiny? You've just contradicted yourself there.
As for your last point. Yeah... not doing anything on it... except for... you know... living on it.
TheTroubador87 2 years ago
obviously you've never been there, i've been there for 5 seasons. its a big resort in resort terms, but a speck in terms of BC. go to the top of whistler and see the curvature of the earth, literally 1000s of mountains around and you can only see 12 miles which is nothing.
they arnt living there? Jesus you've never been there, the first nation people are all on the coasts and have always have been
eonuk 2 years ago
Ermmm... I live in Canada, buddy.
First, just because it's one mountain top, doesn't mean that stealing it was justified. Theft is theft even if it's 100 square meters or a 100 square kilometers.
Secondly, if you knew anything about Pacific Coast natives, the inland was occupied just as much as the coast. And further, you seem to be forgetting that these are the VANCOUVER Olympics which is placed on the land that was inhabited by the coast Salish people.
TheTroubador87 2 years ago
I think you are being pedantic. Its not stealing, because no one was there and there isn't really anything of use there either.
The first nationals are much more concerned with fishing rights and other areas of impact on their livihood.
My personal experience of them is they aren't very hospitable. I can remeber being at the vistor center in alert bay and made a donation to the community. Walked outside and a couple of guys spat on the floor at me. Nice. Lost my vote.
eonuk 2 years ago
IF no one was there it wouldn't be stealing. Which was occupied.
In fact the leadership of 80 out of 200 BC native groups and countless of members of other native groups are protesting the Olympics because the lands were paid for by the Canadians... which, in fact, they promised to do according to their own legislature.
My experience is quite the opposite and so is my girlfriends who's doing her masters in anthropology in Native rights issues.
TheTroubador87 2 years ago
I suppose you are going to say that Shaun White's private halfpipe is also on stolen land too?
No one was there, no one had probably ever even set foot there before - ever
Its funny how they are making such a hoohar about the tiny piece of land that the olympics are on, but are not actually are not saying anything about the 99.9999% of the other land.
Where theres money, theres people wanting a slice.
eonuk 2 years ago
Nice job, thanks to our friends of England !
leclercri 2 years ago
What does tar sands have to do with the Olympics???? And is your group so desperate for attention, you need to highjack a stage that young athletes from around the world have sweated buckets and given blood and tears to achieve. How arrogant! How utterly vile!
tarsansbro 2 years ago
@tarsansbro this video isn't criticising the sweating/bleeding/weeping athletes. check out the Indigenous Environmental Network for info about the corporate greenwashing of the Olympics by companies also involved in the environmental disaster of the tar sands.
phemefilms 2 years ago
Fun way to get the a serious message across - great job!
350orbust 2 years ago