Dear Mr. Garon,
CC: The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos
I am writing to you make sure that the Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act(Bill S-5) that will modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) remains a top priority for you and members of your party this fall.
It has been more than 21 years since CEPA was last updated, leaving people in Canada exposed to toxic chemicals and harmful pollution. This reality — amid the climate emergency, plastic pollution crisis, and inequitable distribution of environmental risk — make strengthening CEPA an urgent priority.
It is essential that political leaders work together to strengthen Bill S-5 and pass this legislation into a law that better protects the environment and the health of all people in Canada — particularly the Indigenous, Black, and racialized people, workers, and people with disabilities marginalized by successive Canadian governments.
The passing of Bill S-5 by the Senate this past June was an important milestone that has put us one step closer to recognizing the human right to a healthy environment. While recognition of the right to a healthy environment in CEPA is a significant step forward for environmental justice in Canada, and although Senators made important amendments to Bill S-5, Members of Parliament also have an opportunity to make critical improvements.
Bill S-5 offers a workable starting point for many much-needed improvements to the Act that ensure that a 21st-century law protects Canadians from 21st-century threats. The bill should be amended to provide further support of the right to a healthy environment by entrenching the principles of environmental justice, non-regression, intergenerational equity, and protection of vulnerable populations.
I urge you to work with your colleagues in the House of Commons to prioritize Bill S-5, and move to quickly to strengthen the bill and pass it into law. We cannot wait another 21 years for this important law to be up to the task of protecting us from everyday threats.
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IF YOU NEED SOME GOOD IDEAS FOR CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE...
HERE THEY ARE!
THE INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY VERSUS A CHANGING CLIMATE...
PROBLEMS.
1. Who is going to win this combat to the death?
2. Can mass extinction of life be avoided?
3. How fast can we transition to a non-polluting Green economy?
4. Will a Green economy be possible?
5. Why was human population growth never honestly
regulated with better education and birth control methods?
6. How can we deliver clean air and water to cities in trouble?
7. How do we explain to millions of industrial companies that they have to stop creating products that pollute the environment and transition to products that enhance nature.
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ANSWERS.
1. A mass extinction of life is possible. Our current political and industrial paths are creating dangerous climate change today, as I write these words. The evidence is absolute.
2. It may be possible to reverse and avoid climate change with tremendous effort on the part of governments and world industrial companies. Presently the process is extremely slow.
3. If Two Billion people plant one Tree each tomorrow, that will be Two Billion trees more for the planet. Early education is important towards this goal and world schools should prioritize Nature and Botany and Biology. In other words...how to grow and plant Trees inside and outside school buildings. Fruit trees are fun to grow!
4. A Green economy is possible with government incentives. Paying people to plant Fruit Trees and Vegetable Gardens and Flowers everywhere will help redirect our present out-of-control industrially polluting economy. It is also possible to recycle office buildings into Hydroponic vertical Gardens and to remove Salt from Ocean water.
5. Religious beliefs based on traditions and not on science has sadly blocked scientific progress for centuries. Birth control remains a controversial subject and that does not bode well for our Homo Sapient species. Education is the key. If you begin to feel sick, whom do you visit first, a priest or a doctor? Answer: A Doctor.
6. We have to pump water from our Oceans to our cities and also to irrigate our farm lands. Pumping water to irrigate forests will help to clean the air we breath as larger forests will provide more Oxygen. To do this governments must create incentives to build large pumping stations, preferably powered with Solar Panels or Wind and/or Water powered turbines. Stations that have the duel purpose of pumping water from our Oceans and removing Salt from the water are desperately needed in places like Ethiopia.
7. We explain to world companies that they no longer have a choice. Life has priority over money. Companies can transition from making useless products to creating life enhancing products. They can also make a profit by producing life enhancing products. Go Green or go broke!
8. Recycling Bio waste is good business for farmers and gardeners, however, recycling plastic and metal and paper is more difficult even if it is absolutely necessary. With government incentives, recycling metal and plastic and Biomass will become profitable businesses.
Sending clean H2O into our cities and towards our farm lands and forests has now become a priority for governments around the world. We should transition much faster away from Oil and towards the production and delivery of clean water from our Oceans to the most arid parts of our planet.
We should have started producing Salt removing pumping stations long ago.
N.J.R.
Kind regards,
Nelson Joseph Raglione
The World Friendly Peace and Ecology Movement.
human4us2.blogspot.com
human4usbillions@gmail.com
