Canada only has a total land area of about 10 million square km. The amount of forest (10 million hectares, or 100k square km) that has burned so far this year already make up 1/100th of that total.
In other words, in just the first half of this year 1% of the world's second largest country has gone up in flames.
Anyone interested in the history of CCP influence in Canada, and more specifically the Greater Vancouver Area should definitely read the following books:
Claws of the Panda, written by Jonathan Manthorpe
Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons, and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the west, written by Sam Cooper
Somebody out there might be having a good time without us getting a cut. -US govt. and believe it or not folks, existing “sin” companies like alcohol producers
As usual, the US’s approach to the war on drugs can be summed up in one word: yiiiiiiiikes.
Congress is incapable of doing anything positive where drugs are concerned. Heck, “positive” for the US with drugs is usually along the lines of “we’re now crushing fewer orphans than last year!” Drugs are such a minor crime that it’s crazy to make companies snitch for that.
If I had fuck you money, and Ben and Jerry didn’t insist on making their tasty shit like 1500 calories a pint, I’d totally keep them in business single handedly.
A variance permit for something with a “zone number” referenced like that isn’t going to be decided by an HOA its going to come from a local zoning law. So I don’t think an HOA has anything to do with this. To me it reads like a property buyer is interested in the place contingent on if they get that zoning law for 35ft wavered to 20ft for either an addition on the place or maybe knock it down and building their own joint.
In 1986, the average American ate 18 pounds of regular ice cream, according to the USDA. By 2021, the most recent year of the data, that was down a third to just 12 pounds per person.
Interestingly, the richer a country gets, the fewer kids it gives birth to. When there’s a good chance you’re going to lose 3 to 4 children before they reach adulthood to hunger, war, disease, or general violence you hedge your bets by having 5-12 kids. Also historically, you need more kids to work your land/trade to support the family.
I’m not even talking about cost. I’m talking about the fact that the world is literally burning down around us. We had 50 years warning and we did nothing meaningful about it. I’m not raising a kid just so he can be forced to go fight in the water wars of 2050.
At least in the USA, the various world crises in the 1960s were quite a bit worse for the prospects of your new born children. We just had the Cuban Missile Crisis where we got closer to global thermal nuclear war than ever in history. The war was raging in Vietnam where young men were dying. The Soviet Union was flexing its power in Eastern Europe where they had just rolled tanks into Czechoslovakia. China had detonated their first Hydrogen bomb.
Frankly it looked pretty bleak then where there was a chance you and your entire family would die in nuclear hellfire potentially any day.
Not to mention kids require an investment of time and care that a lot of people just don't want to make. Given the actual ability to not have kids, some couples choose not to. And it's good that they don't have to, I mean, how many shitty, abusive parents were there in the past before birth control? People in rich countries are making the mature choice not to have children. People in poor countries would also make that choice, if they had the same access to reproductive care.
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