tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383674293933120026.post5607552734977811915..comments2023-08-23T01:44:51.828-07:00Comments on Canada The Sinking Lifeboat: HARD QUESTIONS FOR ‘SOFT’ GREENSTim Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07069923033017092515noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383674293933120026.post-9467008642769975392007-02-27T09:24:00.000-08:002007-02-27T09:24:00.000-08:00Eric, you are making a fundemental flaw in your lo...Eric, you are making a fundemental flaw in your logic. That Canada needs to be actively involved in trying to change other people in the world. We can't, and in fact to do so will make matters worse (see below). We first must show within our selves that we are serious about changing environmental destruction due to population growth. If we close our boarders and say to the world "We are taking the responsble effort to preserve our natural resources, preserve natural habitats by not allowing any more immigration and controling our population." then we will show the rest of the world what they must also do. Control their population. By allowing a shuffling of population around the world in an effort to side step the planet's carrying capacity will ulitmately make matters much worse in the long run. <BR/><BR/>It might "SOUND" good and feel good to want to help the people's of the world, but it's misguided. Here is a prime example of that misguided effort.<BR/><BR/>http://www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/fore-e/rep-e/repafrifeb07-e.pdf<BR/><BR/>The past 40 years of pumping aid into Africa has actually made them worse off. Their per capita GDP is HALF what it was 40 years ago. Why? Because the only thing our aid has done is make Africa more populated with more impoverished people. <BR/><BR/>If we do not stop the increase in human population we will hit the carrying capacity wall and we will have a huge collpase of civilization, and it will be within the lifetime of the young people living today, maybe sooner.<BR/><BR/>I find it strange that the "green" movement of the 1960s hammered this very message, yet today it is completely absent.Richard Wakefieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011854125762805571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383674293933120026.post-73878977866604099792007-02-11T22:03:00.000-08:002007-02-11T22:03:00.000-08:00The fundamental error in the position advanced by ...The fundamental error in the position advanced by Tim Murray in his "Canada The Sinking Lifeboat" anti-immigration position is the idea that Canada could thrive ecologically (let alone socially!) as a nation state version of the "gated community". <BR/><BR/> Sorry to burst that bubble but the ecological "lifeboat" that will be swamped (or not ) is the planet in its entirety. It would be more accurate to view Canada as an integral piece of the ecological lifeboat that is Earth. National borders will not protect us from the many impacts of climate change and environmental breakdown (not to mention conflict!). <BR/><BR/>We had better focus our full efforts on addressing the dangerous combination of global population growth combined with the increasing imitation/export of our high consumption "Western" development model or we are all in very big trouble. <BR/><BR/> Circling the Canadian wagons and looking inwards to a misguided notion of self-interest will effectively remove Canada from any possibility of playing an effective international role in advancing vital global ideas and effort. I'm afraid Its "Global or Bust", anything else is a delusion of national security. <BR/><BR/>Eric Walton - former Green Party of Canada Foreign Affairs Shadow Cabinet Critic and current GPC SC Industry Critic .ericbwaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16845566120362332002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7383674293933120026.post-32805835920849234402007-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:002007-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:00It's simple. Anyone who wants to allow more peopl...It's simple. Anyone who wants to allow more people into Canada should give up their share of the pie. They should house them, feed them, pay for them. They have NO RIGHT whatsoever to ram that down my throat.<br /><br />This notion is of course absurd. It compeletly violates the human rights of people here, classic case of conflicting human rights.<br /><br />Why would anyone want to give up the rights of their own family for people who they don't even know?<br /><br />How do these people even know that those they want to bring in would not kill the very bleading hearts to get what they want?<br /><br />If this means I'm racist then so be it. I would rather be racist and protect my own family, protect the people here, than to cower to a label.<br /><br />RichardRichard Wakefieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011854125762805571noreply@blogger.com