I was going to write about something else, but this merits its own post. The skies over Toronto were dull orange yesterday, and most of the day it was almost like going through a partial eclipse. It was really hard to focus, as it felt like early evening for pretty much the entire working day.
I probably shouldn't have biked in, but I did, and have some shots I took along the way.
The CN Tower is barely visible between a few buildings in the third picture. I didn't apply any special filter to the shots, and indeed I think the camera did amp up the orange a bit, but it looked pretty much like this, especially this fourth shot.
My son was going to join me at the Jazz Bistro to see Nathan Tran but decided it made more sense to stay home, and I decided it wasn't a great idea to come home and turn right around and go back out in this, so I worked another hour, ate at Ginger and then went over to the Jazz Bistro. I only stayed for the first set.
What is so incredibly dispiriting is that we are almost at the point where even the climate change deniers can no longer deny things are badly out of whack, but there is still no push to make any meaningful change and most countries, esp. in North America, are badly off track and in fact going in reverse when it comes to implementing policies that would improve matters. An entire generation betrayed by the current political leadership, including Carney. It does seem to me that western democracy (and the underlying institutions that so clearly favour the weathy and powerful) has completely failed this test. I really don't see any reason for hope at all.
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