Anything less than leaving…

Anything less than leaving all existing wild spaces as they are is folly. Many scientists have actually argued we need to leave about 1/2 of the planet completely untouched by human infrastructure to even approach a sustainable lifestyle for billions of people. The economy is supposed to serve people, not enslave it at the cost of the future. This is supposed to be a rational society, but the people in power seem largely ignorant of the limits of this planet to carry our lives of excess. Doug Ford is a dishonest, small-minded and narrow valued dinosaur who believes in a 1950's wet dream version of car culture and INDUSTRIALIZATION. Hands off the Green belt, I don't want more of these crappy, low paying sub-contracted, no benefits or security ROBOT jobs, this is the worst kind of slavery we have ever invented. Instead we need to create more local grassroot forms of employment such as guilds and other decentralized not-for profit systems that are less dependent on digging endless holes in the ground and cutting nature up with roads and other infrastructure, and more on maintaining things (and on the ARTS and RECREATION !!!) and developing people subjectively, not just objectively. Our 300+ year old economic system, with its IRRATIONAL and FALSE premises (infinite growth, purely rational agents, hahahahhhahahha, that is priceless) combined with our shallow and increasingly divisive and dispassionate values are leading us to predictable forms of degradation and collapse of civility and will randomly put both the rich and poor under random moving targets of collapse and catastrophe that are otherwise AVOIDABLE. No one will be safe if we can't confront this INDUSTRIALIZATION and QUANTIFICATION of all value. We can start by making WASTE, a made up thing that nature can not abide, ILLEGAL, Then we can enforce longer product nad MAINTENANCE and REPAIR cycles and stop all the planned obsolescence. Finally, we need to more strongly control and regulate all the tools of manipulation that are constantly preventing people from escaping their own ignorance and denial of any collective responsibility to all the other life forms and environments on this planet. The new "problem of the commons" is the total neglect of all human being's need to have a purpose beyond there own acquisition of power and accumulation of excessive wealth. The reason people don't really value nature in Ontario is because there are very few wild spaces left to even access, and people prefer their home theatres and virtual worlds to reality. Our values are increasingly bankrupt. LESS is MORE. We can chose collective austerity and create a cyclical economy with metrics tied to scientifically sound and widely vetted sustainability measures, or we will have these limits imposed upon us as the quality of our air, water, natural environments, and social interactions continue to degrade, only to enrich the few beyond any sane need. GREED and DISPASSION is what Doug Ford really has Ontario open for. Protect the Green Belt, and then actually encourage people to experience it more, but respectfully (i.e. leave your damn technology at home and clean up after yourself).