Dear Prime Minister:
When a few dozen Mexican farm workers finally decide to avoid being exploited and they 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 for them to learn how to grow vegetables in office buildings using hydroponic gardening methods.
Today, millions of bureaucrats certainly don't know how or where to grow and harvest vegetables. In school they received psychology training and computer training and in 2020, the private multi-million dollar sky scraper office buildings they inhabit during daylight hours, lock them out because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Office buildings always lock their doors at night to stop itinerants from moving in, even in the devastating cold of winter! They keep the lights on to give the world a good impression of their corporate power. Generosity and compassion are seldom provided for the poor and homeless by large multi-national corporations. Economic power, yes, compassion, no! In our so called Christian society, this is criminal! Millions of square feet of space are not being used and office workers with high intelligence are not valued. They work for large multi-national very exploitive companies with CEO's who will do anything to maintain the status quo...and that includes lobbying the Federal government for money and tax breaks and attempting to block fact based news and social networks from exposing the truth.
Some farmers in Quebec plowed under their crops because not enough Mexican workers were available to help them harvest the vegetables. What in hell is going on? Are Canadian students and welfare recipients and yes, even office workers, not provided with opportunities to work on the land or in sky scrapers filled with plants grown hydroponically? We are years behind Holland and much too dependant on Oil and polluting industries presently dominating our lives.
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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 in these difficult times, but also to tell you that I don’t want us to go back to a ‘normal’ or a system which creates rampant inequalities based on a model of infinite exploitation and destruction of nature.
Now that the time has come to rebuild our future — and we 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.
People in Canada deserve a world that values cooperation and caring and a government that embeds these values in our public policies. 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 own or inhabit.
A much faster and just transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy if climate change does not destroy us first with viral pandemics and floods and forest fires!
The protection and restoration of land, freshwater, and ocean ecosystems along with the wildlife that call these places home is now next to impossible today, in the year 2020, with our present human population growth. Sex education in the schools must become a priority and the school buildings themselves must be transformed into large round Sunlit Green Houses with computers and quiet rooms to study Botany and Biology and Science.
The current land development companies creating: office towers, condos, apartment buildings and industrial parks everywhere there is an inch of space must be shut down and reimagined. They have become dangerous exploiters and are potentially creating future 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. These money hungry developers are backed by our tax hungry municipal governments and the over-crowding they are creating will be unsustainable for Canadian tax payers and our federal government in the near 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, drought forced people to move into the cities and then over-crowding and poverty and misery created civil disobedience which lead to...war and genocide! One technical solution which is possible is to re-imagine towns and villages and place them underground, almost exactly like the present Montreal underground network of tunnels and boutiques except with sleeping quarters for a large majority of the population. I suggest we tunnel deep and create comfortable and bright housing apartments under the few remaining Green spaces left in Canada and we use fibre optic cables to bring sunlight down to the people. Above ground we can maintain parks filled with flowers and trees and Green-Houses open to everyone.
We can also convert under-used industrial parks into apartment buildings and wrap the buildings in Greenery. 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 single-use plastics, and the growth of a circular economy. Money is not edible!
We must stop or replace the dangerous chemicals used in both agriculture and in the creation of consumer goods, and we need cleaner and safer manufacturing alternatives. The Elon Musk Giga-factory is an example of a clean manufacturing plant creating a useful alternative to fossil fuels.
The development of accessible and affordable and healthy communities and transportation networks is vital for a safe future! One good example is the Electric commuter busses presently used in the city of Moscow in Russia. Many other examples can be found around the world but not in Canada! Why in hell not! Is it because we are allowing big Oil to influence our decisions?
We need a future that prioritizes well-being and social and racial justice with economic equity for all people living in Canada...and around the world, created in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and the communities most exposed to environmental harm. The Amazon rain forest is a sad example.
I urge you to speak out in favour of a green and just recovery with your fellow Parliamentarians and the media and I look forward to working with you and our community to build this better world. Thanks for reading
Sincerely,
SIGNED: JOSEPH NELSON RAGLIONE.
The World Friendly Peace and Ecology Movement in partnership with Green-Peace and the Indigenous People of Canada.
http://www. human4us2.com
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