Andrew Moran, the economics editor at Liberty Nation News, writes that Canada seems to be quietly revising the core tenets of its “climate change” religion. Under a headline that bluntly announces, “Canada Admits Justin Trudeau’s Climate Agenda Was a Scam,” and a lede that asks, “Is it too little, too late for the struggling nation?” Moran analyzes a seventeen-minute YouTube video that Prime Minister Mark Carney published on June 30.
In that video, Carney states that Canada can no longer afford to pursue the lofty “green energy” goals established by his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, which, among other directives, required Canada to cut its “greenhouse gas emissions” by nearly 50% of its 2005 levels by 2030. (For what it’s worth, the U.S. has greatly outperformed its parasitic neighbor up North with regard to emissions reductions, even though being “green” has become a big part of Canadians’ warped self-image.)
While Carney makes it clear that he remains a climate cultist at heart, his “fireside chat” with Canadians looks like a “rally ‘round the flag” pep talk meant to encourage his fellow climate-change-communists to bite their tongues for the sake of taking on President Trump.
Calling Trudeau’s environmental edicts “expensive” and “divisive” while paying lip service to Alberta’s energy industry in a year when the province’s conservative citizens are pushing hard for secession from the United Kingdom’s pet realm in North America, Canada’s premier central-banker-turned-prime-
“The climate crisis is still with us, and our commitment to fighting it is absolute,” Carney assures “global warming” zealots who see the productive use of hydrocarbon molecules as mortal sins leading to eternal damnation. “But the certainties of the world of 2015 are long gone,” Carney laments much like a welfare queen who realizes his American taxpayer-provided largesse has come to an end. “Our neighborhood hasn’t been this hostile since Canada was founded. The world hasn’t been this unstable geopolitically since the end of the Second World War.”
Those are some pretty bleak statements from Canada’s banker-in-chief! This is what I hear Carney saying: Don’t worry, “global warming” nuts! We will continue fighting the weather with our meaningless words (which, by the way, arrive with heavy exhalations of carbon-dioxide-tainted condescension — egad!) until we have transferred all of your wealth into our bank accounts and built a mass surveillance system that tracks your every movement (in the name of “saving the planet”)!
But, for right now, the bad American president down South will no longer subsidize our vanity projects, virtue-signaling, or climate communism. I know, it’s terrible. Not being able to fight our imaginary enemy, the weather, as part of our mass propaganda efforts to centralize all economic activity, is disheartening.
Not being able to condition the peasants to believe that it is selfish to wish for a standard of living beyond that of a fifteenth-century serf is as unbearable as the dreadful decades when frontiersmen had to defend their lives from local indigenous peoples, whose lands we have stolen and plan to give back sometime soon…after enough Christian churches have mysteriously burned to the ground.
Even though we have no military and provide no security for the North American continent, not being able to stomp our feet and get our way feels like suffering through a global war. Being forced to produce and export anything besides our empty rhetoric is a bit like Armageddon, dontcha know. Anyway, we must pretend to be sane for the time being, or we might lose Alberta to the real Americans!
Canada’s “climate change” cultists are not happy. “We’re already paying the price for that in terms of record heat, uh, record temperatures in Canada and around the world,” said one “global warming” loon who has clearly not seen any temperature recordings from the early part of the twentieth century, when daily highs often exceeded those of today.
Because Canadian citizens do not understand that Americans prop up their entire economy, they believe that carbon taxes, electric vehicle mandates, and expensive “green energy” boondoggles come with no cost. Canada is blessed with abundant reserves of crude oil, but Canada’s brainwashed people believe that it would somehow be better for their economy if they ban new hydrocarbon projects and destroy existing oil pipelines. Economic growth through economic suicide is the Canadian way.
You know who acts so stupidly and selfishly? Trust fund babies who don’t have to work because daddy has made sure that they’re taken care of for life. For decades, America has been Canada’s daddy, and American taxpayers have subsidized Canadians’ lifestyles while asking for nothing in return. Trade deals have allowed Canada to export most products (usually originating in China) into the United States, while restricting what U.S. producers can send up North.
Canada’s territorial defense is entirely dependent upon the benevolence of Americans who have allowed Canada to take shelter under the U.S. national security umbrella. Canadian officials and cultural leaders demonize Americans, call us terrible names, and pretend to be gracious stewards of the environment and indispensable leaders of the “rules-based” international system. But Canada exists only because of America’s restraint and generosity.
Canadian idiots are always talking about how they’d fight to the death if President Trump tries to conquer their country. The president does not need to send a single soldier into an Arctic frontier filled with loud and irrelevant hippies. The moment Canada loses the privilege of selling China’s junk in American markets, Mark Carney’s economy implodes. America is an energy exporter these days. We don’t need anything from communist China’s vassal state up North.
Perhaps that’s why 42% of Canadian manufacturing companies are considering moving their businesses to the United States. A KPMG survey of Canadian producers shows that 77% of those Canadian companies considering a move plan to do so within the next two years.
Furthermore, 57% of Canadian manufacturers have paused, reduced, or cancelled capital investment projects. Companies cited Canada’s expensive “green energy” regulations, burdensome corporate taxes, and government restrictions on capital investment as major reasons for fleeing Canada’s centrally controlled economy.
As Canada embraces a system of “climate change” communism that has more in common with China’s politburo-managed economy than with that of the United States, manufacturers are abandoning the wintry ideological prison up North that has survived only by behaving as a blood tick sucking up Americans’ charity.
Prime Minister Carney cannot save his failing state. As Liberty Nation’s Andrew Moran notes, Canada’s “obsession with climate change” has been “disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources.” “Green energy” policies have proven to be “vanity projects” that wreck economies.
“Countries keep turning to crude oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear power to meet their energy needs. The United States realized it. Europe is starting to come around. Asia always knew it. Canada was the last nation to finally understand that oil and gas are the answer, not a windmill.” Unfortunately for Canadian citizens, committed “global warming” fanatic Mark Carney is not capable of saving Canada’s sinking ship.
Over at the Conservative Treehouse, Sundance says it best: Despite Canadians’ “unwillingness to accept reality,” our Northern neighbors are “economically dependent on the United States as the customer for any export.” Without American consumers, “Canada is structurally incapable of economic growth.”
Unfortunately, Canada is filled with America-haters whose arrogance prevents them from recognizing the fragile state of their economy. U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, has tried to warn ungrateful Canadians of their folly. Because Canada’s government controls the news media, Canadians falsely believe that they are independent and strong. Their hubris will lead them to the painful discovery that they are dependent and weak.
Image: Mark Carney. Credit: Policy Exchange via Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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