#ClimatePollution #Canada #ClimateChange #AirPollution: "To illustrate how Canada is doing compared to our peers, I dug up the same "everything except electricity" emissions data for the rest of the Group of Seven (G7) nations. Collectively, these wealthy industrialized nations emit one-third of global climate pollution and produce half the world's GDP. This is the group that has the resources and capacity required to lead the climate fight.

As my next chart makes clear, we are embarrassingly in last place and heading in the wrong direction.

Germany, in contrast, has done the best in this group. What most people know about Germany's climate efforts is their multi-decade push to clean up their electricity sector — known as Energiewende. But the resulting huge electricity emissions cuts aren't even included on this chart. This chart only shows what they've done with their climate pollution in the rest of their economy — which is to reduce it by more than a third since 1990.

Our Commonwealth peers in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are close behind them. They are also best known for cutting coal from their electricity generation. But again, this chart ignores that and shows they cut emissions by more than a third across the rest of the economy."

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/06/08/analysis/blindly-accelerating-oncoming-climate-train

The other day I was having a conversation about music with some people I work with in a Restaurant in Amsterdam. These two guys are younger than me and, being young Europeans, they could not conceive I don't like electronic music. I tried to explain that musicians are important for me to appreciate a song, and that leaving the generation of sound to machines was, for me, a last resort, in case the music was just too complex to be played by humans.

This reminded me of the song (or musical piece) called G-spot Tornado, written by Frank Zappa. Zappa wrote that song for the Jazz from Hell album, and said the piece was too difficult to be played by humans, so he used a Synclavier DMS to play all the parts. I showed them that song as an example of the electronic music I could listen to. They were surprised at what they were listening.

This whole event, in turn, reminded me of the performance of this song by the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition to the ensemble playing a wonderful, amazing rendition of the song (which was being conducted by Zappa, for his Yellow Shark album), behind Zappa -- and therefore in front of the orchestra) Canadian Dancer Louise Lecavalier was making a dance adaptation of the song. Her performance is as mind-blowing as the song, and the two together make for a show that is worth seeing many times.

Thus, here's the video to the song:

. Played by the Frankfurt Ensemble Modern. Written and Directed by Frank Zappa. Arranged by Ali N. Askin. Performed in dance by Louise Lecavalier

Enjoy!

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