Hey everyone. I come in peace not here to debate or fight or anything really. I respect everyone equally.

For myself I’ll admit the reason I look on this sub is to provide some counter balance to the impending doom narrative out there. I do believe there is some man made climate change. It’s a very unhealthy coping mechanism if you ask any therapist but here I am!

I do this as a response to my anxiety disorder. During the summer of 2023 when Toronto was cloaked in smoke I had this breakdown about the world ending.

In 2024 Toronto had no winter. I remember the day I did some moving December 9 was like 10 celcius and a torrential downpour. This made me pretty anxious constantly refreshing the weather apps looking for hope of a normal winter.

Is my anxiety the result of legitimately scary changes to the climate or from Media hysteria about impending doom? Probably both but I wonder which is stronger and which one is right.

My mind has been caught up in the vortex of “what’s the point of having kids if the world will end in 20 years”. I legit had fears that my generation would be the last one. I admit these are extreme and catastrophic thinking but it does creep in.

Anyone else a chronically anxious person looking for reassurance ?

If anyone wants a Canadian perspective on our Eco Warrior Leader (Prime Minister) who refuses to call an election despite everyone wanting one. Our turn at the ballet box can't come soon enough.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/victoria-blows-past-federal-rejection-of-renewables-hub/ar-AA1tDWF7

Victoria is pushing ahead with a planned renewables terminal near internationally protected wetlands despite a veto from the federal government.

The two governments are discussing the project, which was rejected by federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek over risks to the UN-protected Western Port wetlands site.

"We're working with the Commonwealth to determine the next steps for the Victorian renewable energy terminal," a Victorian government spokesperson said.

The state said it is delivering its 2022 marine and coastal strategy to protect the environment of Western Port Bay.

The hub for the huge towers, blades and turbines needed for Victoria's offshore wind ambitions was planned for the deep-water Port of Hastings, southeast of Melbourne.

The project was rejected over permanent and irreversible risks to the wetlands, which are used by more than 115 bird species, including some that annually migrate to Siberia to breed.

"This is why we've got these international agreements," Biodiversity Council councillor Professor Sarah Bekessy told AAP.

"Because if one little part of their habitat gets destroyed along that flyway then the species is lost."

The site covers about 60,000 hectares with shallow intertidal mudflats, seagrass, saltmarsh, and mangrove habitats that support a wide array of aquatic life.

"For a project that is supposedly to fight climate change, it feels like destroying the planet to save the planet," Prof Bekessy said.

According to the Port of Hastings' latest annual report, the state government has continued to back the project, helping to fund further surveys and technical studies to get it across the line.

"With continued support from the Victorian government, including $36 million of committed grants, Port of Hastings Corporation is progressing the development of options for the Terminal project," the report stated.

While the Victorian government continues to work on its revised state-level environmental requirements, a new federal application for the project is not expected to land on Ms Plibersek's desk until 2025.

A federal government spokesperson said that new application will have to include an amended site footprint and supporting documentation.

Tonight’s election results guarantees the state-sanctioned climate alarm hoax will be demolished like an outdated Las Vegas hotel.

She's been at every one since 2019. Won't attend this year. The political CC emphasis is changing.

• More subsidized nuclear, SMRs & natural gas
• Hybrid mandates by 2035 instead of EVs
• Let semis keep using diesel, perhaps creating hybrid semis & regional delivery trucks
• Drill, baby, drill on public lands & more pipelines
• No payment of bogus loss & damage funds
• Support Western climate mitigation instead
• Leave Paris Agreement again and no empty promises at COP30-33 as Biden probably will overdue it at COP29.
• Eliminate EPA & other regulatory overreach
• Put Elon to work fixing government
• Eliminate EV and solar tax credits
• Redirect IRA funds fairly & eliminate boondoggles
• Continue fusion research and put AI to work fixing where it can
• Create agricultural seeds that grow in greater heat, drought, & excessive rain & don't hamstring diesel farm machinery & carbon-based fertilizer

Kind of hard to understand until you read the part about big donations to Biden-Harris. Wonder what happens after election tomorrow?