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Global economic growth is 'suicidal'
Author: Administrator | 
Canadian environmentalist Dr Suzuki explains why separating economics from ecology is bad news for humans
Last year I spent 30 days on a bus going from St Johns, Newfoundland, on the east coast, all the way across Canada to Victoria in British Columbia on the west coast. I spoke in 41 communities to more than 30,000 people and also taped more than 600 interviews with people across the country telling me what they would do for the environment if they were Prime Minister of Canada. What I learned is that Canadians value nature as a part of who we are; they want it protected and they are willing to pay more taxes to do that. They want Canada to meet its Kyoto obligations. They want efficient, affordable public transportation. They want a carbon tax but they also want government and the corporate community to do their share.Human beings are a truly remarkable species. We are able to conceive notions like democracy, science, equality before the law, justice and morality – concepts that have no counterpart in nature itself – but we have our shortcomings too. We demarcate borders that often make no ecological sense: dissecting watersheds, fragmenting forests, disrupting animal migratory routes. These human boundaries mean nothing to the flow of water, the atmosphere or oceans, yet we try to manage these resources within these confines.When human numbers were small, our technology simple, and our consumption mainly for survival, nature was generally able to absorb our impact. Even so, it is believed that with simple stone spears and axes the Palaeolithic people that migrated across the Bering Strait and down towards South America extinguished slow moving mammals in their path.
Enter a new era: Bioremediation Author: Anne Sophie |
It is a great honor to post Fungi expert, Dr. Paul Stamet's presentation on polypores and their unprecedented power to convert toxic waste into old-growth soils. Where there is Life, there is Hope ! Take an hour and half to listen to this very knowledgeable scientist, you won't regret it. Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site |
