New conservation sites, new funding model?

CBC: Carney announces $3.8B to protect nature, new conservation sites in James Bay and Manitoba

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced $3.8 billion in funding to protect nature on Tuesday, as the federal government moves to meet its conservation targets.

In addition to public money, the government is seeking private sector investment to fund the conservation strategy, which will involve the creation of new national parks and marine reserves.

“Creating these spaces is ambitious and requires significant funding,” Carney said during a news conference in Wakefield, Que. “We can’t do it with public money alone.”

“Private sector investment” Hmmm. Voluntary taxes? A new federal “pay what you can” strategy? The new “ScotiaBank Nature Reserve”?

Today I was thinking about Will Shipley. He hasn’t posted anything about software in quite a while (since he joined Apple five years ago). I wonder what he thinks of useability in current Apple operating systems? (I wonder if he could say?)

The Ultimate Short Term Greed (US Politics)

NYT: Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.

Led by a president who refers to climate change as a “hoax,” the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.

This is beyond moronic. If there is evil in this world, it is embodied by Trump and his acolytes.