Click here to learn about hosting packages, including a FREE plan. In British Columbia, an unsustainable assault on the forests now threatens domestic watersheds throughout the province. Policy makers, here as elsewhere in North America and the world, continue to push the corporate agenda, deaf to majority opposition voiced at the local level. Behind the scenes of daily destruction, legislation favoring sustainable ecosystems is quietly blocked or overriden.
Arrests can number in the hundreds or thousands, and still the general public is muted.
Because we are disenfranchised by a political system which is heavily weighted to favor corporate and industrial interests. We have come to expect that our ecological concerns, regardless of their scientific underpinnings, will be swept aside, and that our democratic initiatives will be ignored. And so, as long as there is no change in the dominant structure of power, there appears to be little prospect for positive change on the environmental issues we debate so passionately. The solution for this crisis might be found, however, in a political movement that can transform our fundamental frustration into a vision for change. Present Green party policies, however, downplay this most crucial issue in favor of the usual list of specific environmental crises and proposed remedies.