We’re So Effing Skewed

Garrett Snedaker
6 min readAug 22, 2021

Canadian Michael Barnard calls for “pragmatic, far-sighted adherence to reality” and writes that policies which result from his ideology “tend to cluster in center and center-left parties.” So, what policies are those?

Here is Barnard’s list:

Trade — Free trade, lots of treaties, WTO oversight

Climate — Carbon pricing, deliberate and thoughtful elimination of coal and natural gas, deliberate and rapid increase in wind and solar generation, elimination of all fossil fuel subsidies, electrification of all transportation, get into the…

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Garrett Snedaker

Poet and essayist living on the left coast of a nation in decline.