Canadians believe their country is much more environmentally conscious than it is, said Kai Chan, a University of British Columbia professor, who helped write the report
A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that “fundamental, structural change” is required to halt a steep decline in the natural environment has lessons for Canada, says one of its authors.
“The fact that we are faced with such a stark choice is actually the product of a broken 20th-century economy that’s not fit for purpose in the 21st century.”It says the current extinction rate is tens to hundreds of times higher than the 10-million-year average. Ocean plastic pollution has increased tenfold since 1990, affecting nearly half of all seabird and marine mammals.
The report concludes 14 out of 18 ways in which human communities depend on the environment are declining. “Our institutions don’t generally do a good job of thinking about the long term — neither our political institutions, nor our businesses,” Chan said. Those are all useful, said Scott McFatridge of the Smart Prosperity Institute. So is the report’s focus on moving past narrow economic measures such as gross domestic product.
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