Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney...
When a few dozen Mexican farm workers finally decide to avoid being exploited and decide to walk away from the farm fields of Canada, thousands of hungry college and university trained Canadian bureaucrats will wonder what went wrong with the economic system. They may also wonder how to grow vegetables in office buildings and yes, it is possible to grow vegetables in office buildings using hydroponic gardening methods, and that is what they should be doing instead of button pushing.
Millions of bureaucrats certainly don't know how or where to grow and harvest vegetables, and the private multi-million dollar sky scraper office buildings they utilize during working hours, lock their doors at night. Technically trained office workers are seldom valued and in the future many will become jobless itinerants sleeping on the streets outside office buildings. Today they work for large multi-national exploitive companies who have CEO's willing to do anything to maintain their status quo...and that includes keeping office workers from climbing up the hierarchy ladder. Those same companies will lobby the Canadian government for tax breaks.
While millions of office workers remain trapped in their offices, some farmers in North America plow under their crops because not enough Mexican workers are available to help them harvest their vegetables. Other farmers dump their milk or kill their chickens if the market under values their produce. What is going on? Why are not Canadian students and welfare recipients and millions of office workers not given the opportunity to study and work on the land? Why are there not enough Canadian born farm workers? And why are so many elderly farmers selling their lands to Condo and Housing Developers? Our educational priorities are screwed up! We need to motivate teenagers away from electronic telephones and computers and towards the woods, where they are paid to plant trees. They need to visit farm lands where they can learn from farmers how to plant and grow vegetables? I also suggest the Canadian government not subsidize Oil companies or any company presently creating pollution. Polluting companies are today keeping thousands of office workers busy buying and selling and using the Media to manipulate people into buying usesless products. Office workers should be busy planting Gardens! Every fourth floor in a corporate building should contain a Green House.-------------------------------------------------------
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown what Canada can do when we treat a crisis like a crisis. We have thrown out the old rulebook of what is politically possible and focused on what is politically necessary to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
I want to thank you for your work, as Prime Minister, in these difficult times! I also wish to explain how I fear going back to our old so called normal economic system which created and continues to create rampant inequality based on a model of infinite exploitation and destruction of nature, feuled by corporate greed!
Now that the time has come to rebuild our future — and you will -- we need to have courage and foresight to create something better. The recovery from COVID-19 must make our society more resilient: fair, and sustainable because Cancer is now the largest enemy we humans face, and it is proving more dangerous than Covid.
People in Canada deserve a world that values co-operation and caring and a government that embeds these values into our public policies. A government that respects nature and lives within its limits. A Canada where Indigenous rights and wisdom are not just a slogan but protected by law. A world that recognizes that solutions to climate change can create great jobs and a better future.
A green recovery for Canada means investing in: Trees and Gardens and Green-Houses for every citizen in proportion to the territory they inhabit.
We need a much faster and just transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy if global warming does not destroy us first with viral pandemics and floods and forest fires!
The protection and restoration of: land, fresh water and ocean ecosystems along with the wildlife that call these places home is now next to impossible today, in 2026, with our present human population growth. We must do better! Biology and Botany and Science in the schools must become a priority and the school buildings themselves must be transformed into large round Sunlit Green Houses, with flowers in bloom along with computers and quiet rooms to study Botany and Biology and Science. Throw in a few birds and small animals and you have garden paradise schools!
The current land development companies creating Condos and Apartments and Industrial Parks without Trees or Green spaces, must be shut down and reimagined. They have become dangerous exploiters and they are in the process of creating overcrowded slums! Developers are buying up every piece of farm land and small Green space they could find available in Canada and especially in Quebec, which considers itself an independent country and where the politicians are basically naive! Money hungry developers are backed by our tax hungry municipal governments and the over-crowding they are creating will cost the federal government millions in the future, if there is a future, as global warming continues to heat up the planet and continues to change the atmosphere. A few years ago in countries such as Syria, over-crowding and poverty and misery created civil disobedience which lead to...war!
To save ourselves from over crowding, I imagine we can create housing apartments under farm lands, but that would be a last ditch effort. We could use fibre optic cables to bring sunlight down to the people living underground if we absolutely had to, and we can also convert old industrial buildings into low-cost apartment buildings, and wrap the buildings in Greenery and literally create buildings with thousands of plants growing on the roof tops, and inside and outside the buildings. Europe is ahead of us in this respect.
We need an end to the use of oil products and especially single-use plastics and the growth of a circular economy. Money is not edible!
We need to stop the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture and in the creation of consumer goods. We need cleaner and safer manufacturing alternatives and one good example is how Elon Musk created his giant Gigafactory. It is a clean manufacturing plant and his Electric cars are helping to clean the atmosphere...however...we need to reestablish forest lands and farm lands and that means we absolutely have to stop exploiting our natural resources for profit! Elon can plant Trees and Gardens on his giant roof-tops.
We need to create affordable and healthy transportation networks. For example the Electric commuter busses presently used in Bejing China.
We need a future that prioritizes social and racial justice with economic equity for all people living in Canada and around the world; and we need to roll up our sleeves and work in partnership with Indigenous Peoples to save the environment. We have to protect our communities and our cities presently exposed to toxic pollution. Millions of people are developing Cancers, today, because they are breathing in toxic chemicals and hospitals are over-crowded, unable to help! Canadians are finding it almost imposible finding doctors and proper technical expertise, but there are solutions.
I urge you to speak out in favour of a Green and a just economic recovery with your fellow Parliamentarians and the Media and I look forward to working with you and our community to build a better world. Thanks for reading
Sincerely,
SIGNED: NELSON JOSEPH RAGLIONE.
human4usbillions@gmail.com
