canada's oil supply: you're talking about the tar sands, right? At this point isnt it easier to get at oil in the mideast than to extract the oil you're talking about? Because I heard that extracting oil from the alberta oil sands isnt even worth the effort at this point. not to say that it might be more technologically feasable in the future.
Also I dont buy the whole, "we're running out of resources" line. I've been fed that schtick for so long and only come to realize that its not food or resources that are actually running out, it's just matter of scarcity, like you said. But there's also artificial scarcity promoted by interests who wish to privatize every last thing on this planet. This is done with food and grain all over the world. Private interests push their way into local markets and corner them, forcing out local business and manipulating prices. Also what do you think is in the future for Canada? It sounds like you're worried about the market being "opened up" to foreign trade. I take it you're not for Canada joining the Pacific free trade agreement/TPP?
well you were right about canada in trouble when deregulation arrives in your last post
the oil sands are INSANELY inefficient. i believe it costs 2 barrels of oil to extract 3 there and im too lazy to look it up - at any rate, china, USA, France, and other countries are harvesting the shit out of it. There is also a massive landgrab in the canadian arctic for oil supplies between USA, Russia, and Canada and the US has had naval boats rolling around in our waters illegally for years now as a big fuck you we do what we want. if im not mistaken, russias bid at arctic control fell through but canada is sleeping on it so who knows whos gonna get it.
this ties in with your scarcity idea though, basically canadas oil supply is horribly inefficient - the oil sands cost almost as much oil to harvest as they produce and the antarctic drilling was found to be far to dangerous to be viable. the reason both of these are now areas of contention is because we are running out of oil everywhere else and these countries are looking to secure the next sources as they are almost the last.
im not sure why you wouldnt buy into scarcity, given the state of american grain output over the last 5 years. the largest suppliers of wheat and grain are india and china, both of which overproduced off their lands with poor farming methods for the last 10 years in order to achieve the growth they did, and in doing so literally turned thousands of kilometers of farmland to desert. they have dropped their water tables so low in many parts of india that irrigation often costs more than the crops that can be produced from it and china has 3,600 square kilometers of arable land turn to desert every year. basically food supply is on a massive bubble right now, thanks in part to a huge monsoon that hit india and allowed them to produce a fuckton of wheat this year
at any rate everyone is running out of stuff and canada has a lot of stuff and we are fucked