I agree with Rex. Stirring up powerful emotions with doomsday predictions is not helpful. Having said that, ignoring the effect which our collective human activity is having on the earth is also not helpful.
We're still here, so doomsday hasn't arrived and since the vast majority of people in the world will agree that climate change has indeed occured over the centuries, millenia and more, both the emotion about it and change of the climate are valid and are here.
Have we, the people, changed the climate? Personally, I think so. It is a fact that we have released some ridiculously large amount of carbon which was, for eons, in the ground in the form of coal, oil and gas and have decided to vaporize it and put it into the athmosphere.
I don't know the amount, but there has been at least a couple hundred or so years of worlwide industry and transportation, so it's a lot.
The earth isn't really that large. I recently learned that someone had estimated that, for example, there is only of the order of a billion x billion grains of sand on all of our beaches on the whole earth and that we are using so much of this beach sand to build roads and buildings that people are actually stealing nice beaches.
So, it is reasonble to assume that all that carbon we put into the athmosphere is having an effect, probably on our weather and climate as that is where the CO2 went, at least for the time being until the earth figues out what to do with it.
Does that mean that there will be a particular day of doom? Personally I don't think so for a couple of reasons. It would be a little arrogant of us to think that we can destroy something which we didn't create in the first place and why would, who ever, or whatever result or random molecular motion that created us, want to have created something which can be destroyed by the creation itself?
Doomsday aside, will we change the earth? I think we already have, but while we do, we do not have to make a big mess of it and have obnoxious and poisonous substances spread about all over the place and vaporized into the athmosphere.
We have the technology to live in a clean, healthy home.
8:38-- Could you please tell me which part of the municipal government includes "The Department of the Environment", and what part of our property taxes has been directed toward environmental legislation. I was of the understanding that environmental issues were a part of the responsibility of provincial and federal governments, and that municipalities actually held very little power in this area. I do agree that we all should do as much as we can toward protecting our mother earth, but when I hear a municipal candidate declaring to be focused on primarily environmental issues it concerns me. That's not what I want my municipal government to do. I want my municipal government to be directing their energy (and my tax dollars)toward infrastructure, roads, schools, water, sewer, housing, development and that's what I want to hear them talking about. That is the job that has been assigned to them, and that is what I want them to be working at. It's great to save the planet, and municipal legislation should of course take environmental concerns into account. But that won't influence my vote on the 20th.
Expressing my views on global warming doesn't change the already expressed views on housing, parking, district governance and the sewer job. They are on my website at,
www.jarmoformayor.ca
Soon to be added will be my views about:
healthcare access to food for all the multiplex arts and culture first nations interaction nearshore oil tankers plastic in the ocean artificial light pollution
What about all the illegal vacation rentals still operating? We're coming up on 2 years of the "proactive enforcement", and there's still lots out there.
Your answer will determine if you get my (and I assume other's) vote or not...
8:49 PM: It's not fair to expect Jarmo to have a solution at this stage of the game. He doesn't have all the facts to base a decision upon. How much has already been spent on this fiasco? How many rentals still exist? How many have been shut down? How much housing has been created by the whole show? ALL of this information is being kept hidden in order to attempt to hide the facts of the failure of "proactive enforcement". No reasonable person could be expected to have a solution under the current circumstances. As you said, 8:49, it's near two years and it hasn't worked yet. And now, there's talk that the courts are ready to rule against the District in the SCBH case. As I see it, "proactive enforcement" has been a failure and a waste of public funds. I do care about people being able to find a place to live and I don't care about whether or not someone is renting out their condo and I don't believe the mayor's claim that the two are linked. And I'm not in favor of this continuing social experiment, wasting our tax dollars, attempting to prove that they are. I'm going to vote for a change in leadership.
Re 8:52. Right On. Jarmo has already displayed more independant brain power than that herd of light weights in power. He has my vote. "What the hell have you got to lose". The incumbents have had ten years of ideological solutions to real problems. Where has that got us. Most taxed place in BC per capita, and NO SOLUTIONS. Let me repeat myself. Most taxed place in BC per capita and NO SOLUTIONS. What the hell have you got to lose.
Trouble is Josie got in by acclamation. She had no experience in the job. She presents herself well but what experience she did bring to the job seems to have been too much of the wrong kind of experience. Too much living off government work, so she has been blind to making the dollars count. Too much environmental activist. Too much social justice warrior. She has not displayed the prioritizing needed to do the job.
If you think we need more environmental focus, and more big gov't spending, vote for her. This last minute conversion to affordability is a charade.
If the current mayor was truly concerned about the lack of housing within the town perhaps her current rental operation running with questionable zoning, could be turned into long term rental staff accommodations.
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Vote for candidates that will fight climate change. Imagine a Tofino without fossil fuel.
I agree with Rex. Stirring up powerful emotions with doomsday predictions is not helpful. Having said that, ignoring the effect which our collective human activity is having on the earth is also not helpful.
We're still here, so doomsday hasn't arrived and since the vast majority of people in the world will agree that climate change has indeed occured over the centuries, millenia and more, both the emotion about it and change of the climate are valid and are here.
Have we, the people, changed the climate? Personally, I think so. It is a fact that we have released some ridiculously large amount of carbon which was, for eons, in the ground in the form of coal, oil and gas and have decided to vaporize it and put it into the athmosphere.
I don't know the amount, but there has been at least a couple hundred or so years of worlwide industry and transportation, so it's a lot.
The earth isn't really that large. I recently learned that someone had estimated that, for example, there is only of the order of a billion x billion grains of sand on all of our beaches on the whole earth and that we are using so much of this beach sand to build roads and buildings that people are actually stealing nice beaches.
So, it is reasonble to assume that all that carbon we put into the athmosphere is having an effect, probably on our weather and climate as that is where the CO2 went, at least for the time being until the earth figues out what to do with it.
Does that mean that there will be a particular day of doom? Personally I don't think so for a couple of reasons. It would be a little arrogant of us to think that we can destroy something which we didn't create in the first place and why would, who ever, or whatever result or random molecular motion that created us, want to have created something which can be destroyed by the creation itself?
Doomsday aside, will we change the earth? I think we already have, but while we do, we do not have to make a big mess of it and have obnoxious and poisonous substances spread about all over the place and vaporized into the athmosphere.
We have the technology to live in a clean, healthy home.
Re 8:38 AM Empty!
8:38-- Could you please tell me which part of the municipal government includes "The Department of the Environment", and what part of our property taxes has been directed toward environmental legislation. I was of the understanding that environmental issues were a part of the responsibility of provincial and federal governments, and that municipalities actually held very little power in this area. I do agree that we all should do as much as we can toward protecting our mother earth, but when I hear a municipal candidate declaring to be focused on primarily environmental issues it concerns me. That's not what I want my municipal government to do. I want my municipal government to be directing their energy (and my tax dollars)toward infrastructure, roads, schools, water, sewer, housing, development and that's what I want to hear them talking about. That is the job that has been assigned to them, and that is what I want them to be working at. It's great to save the planet, and municipal legislation should of course take environmental concerns into account. But that won't influence my vote on the 20th.
Re 9:51 Right On
Hi:
Expressing my views on global warming doesn't change the already expressed views on housing, parking, district governance and the sewer job. They are on my website at,
www.jarmoformayor.ca
Soon to be added will be my views about:
healthcare
access to food for all
the multiplex
arts and culture
first nations interaction
nearshore oil tankers
plastic in the ocean
artificial light pollution
others to come.
Jarmo Venalainen
Mayoral Candidate, Tofino
@jarmo
What about all the illegal vacation rentals still operating? We're coming up on 2 years of the "proactive enforcement", and there's still lots out there.
Your answer will determine if you get my (and I assume other's) vote or not...
I'll collect me thoughts, (with regards illegal vacation rentals), and add them to my website today.
www.jarmoformayor.ca
Jarmo Venalainen
Mayoral Candidate, Tofino
8:49 PM: It's not fair to expect Jarmo to have a solution at this stage of the game. He doesn't have all the facts to base a decision upon. How much has already been spent on this fiasco? How many rentals still exist? How many have been shut down? How much housing has been created by the whole show? ALL of this information is being kept hidden in order to attempt to hide the facts of the failure of "proactive enforcement". No reasonable person could be expected to have a solution under the current circumstances. As you said, 8:49, it's near two years and it hasn't worked yet. And now, there's talk that the courts are ready to rule against the District in the SCBH case. As I see it, "proactive enforcement" has been a failure and a waste of public funds. I do care about people being able to find a place to live and I don't care about whether or not someone is renting out their condo and I don't believe the mayor's claim that the two are linked. And I'm not in favor of this continuing social experiment, wasting our tax dollars, attempting to prove that they are. I'm going to vote for a change in leadership.
Hi:
I put my comments on selected bylaws on my website
https://jarmoformayor.ca/tofino-bylaws
Jarmo Venalainen
Mayoral Candidate, Tofino
Re 8:52. Right On. Jarmo has already displayed more independant brain power than that herd of light weights in power. He has my vote. "What the hell have you got to lose". The incumbents have had ten years of ideological solutions to real problems. Where has that got us. Most taxed place in BC per capita, and NO SOLUTIONS.
Let me repeat myself. Most taxed place in BC per capita and NO SOLUTIONS. What the hell have you got to lose.
Trouble is Josie got in by acclamation. She had no experience in the job. She presents herself well but what experience she did bring to the job seems to have been too much of the wrong kind of experience. Too much living off government work, so she has been blind to making the dollars count. Too much environmental activist. Too much social justice warrior. She has not displayed the prioritizing needed to do the job.
If you think we need more environmental focus, and more big gov't spending, vote for her. This last minute conversion to affordability is a charade.
If the current mayor was truly concerned about the lack of housing within the town perhaps her current rental operation running with questionable zoning, could be turned into long term rental staff accommodations.
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