http://rexweyler.com Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:46:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://rexweyler.com/greenpeace/comment-page-1/#comment-30096 HELP WANTED: SAVE FISH LAKE! « STAND UP FOR CANADA Sat, 29 May 2010 07:34:59 +0000 http://rexweyler.com/greenpeace-home/#comment-30096 [...] Rex Weyler, Co-founder of Greenpeace Canada spoke of how it is up to us to protect all living things.   He explained that nature stops growing!  There is no growth after maturity.  In fact in the human body an excess of growth manifests as cancer.  In nature species level off their growth and live in harmony.  Our current economic system is based on growth.  We have a new paradym to go through.  We must learn that we are not the center of this earth.  We took all the low hanging fruit first!  Our resources are in decline.  We have reached peak oil, wood, copper.  But wait, our growth has more than exceeded the level that the planet can provide for us.  That is why now that the oil has been drilled out of the earth, corporations are drilling the ocean’s floor because our economic system is based on growth.  And yes, the Alberta tar sands is another example of squeezing our planet while destroying precious eco-systems.  The copper has been taken from the mountains so now companies such as Taseko are proposing to do 3 mile wide open pit mine and to do this, drain the 15 mile long Fish Lake that is on The Tshilqot’in Nation’s lands.  You can help by writing a letter today to Jim Prentice, address is above!  To read more by Rex Weyler check out http://rexweyler.com/greenpeace/ [...] [...] Rex Weyler, Co-founder of Greenpeace Canada spoke of how it is up to us to protect all living things.   He explained that nature stops growing!  There is no growth after maturity.  In fact in the human body an excess of growth manifests as cancer.  In nature species level off their growth and live in harmony.  Our current economic system is based on growth.  We have a new paradym to go through.  We must learn that we are not the center of this earth.  We took all the low hanging fruit first!  Our resources are in decline.  We have reached peak oil, wood, copper.  But wait, our growth has more than exceeded the level that the planet can provide for us.  That is why now that the oil has been drilled out of the earth, corporations are drilling the ocean’s floor because our economic system is based on growth.  And yes, the Alberta tar sands is another example of squeezing our planet while destroying precious eco-systems.  The copper has been taken from the mountains so now companies such as Taseko are proposing to do 3 mile wide open pit mine and to do this, drain the 15 mile long Fish Lake that is on The Tshilqot’in Nation’s lands.  You can help by writing a letter today to Jim Prentice, address is above!  To read more by Rex Weyler check out http://rexweyler.com/greenpeace/ [...]

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