![]() ![]() ![]() Undeniably, our social amenities are being purchased by the subversion of nature for the sole benefit of humans, with the cost of human hegemony being borne – for now – mostly by other species. These increasing human demands are depriving native species of life-sustaining habitats and impoverishing the lives of those that persist. Accordingly, Canada’s wild lands are being continually lost and converted to exclusive human uses such as industrial farming, urban development and, above all, resource extraction. Reinforcing that view, governments have politicized nature and framed environmental regulation as a constraint on economic growth and restriction on freedom.Īlthough global economic development has generated prosperity, it has also brought inequality, mostly at the expense of the environment. ![]() Many Canadians now conceive of “progress” as the unremitting economic development and expansion of the human footprint, necessarily at the expense of the natural environment. “We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be – the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.” Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf ![]()
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