{"id":57859,"date":"2021-05-14T08:11:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57859"},"modified":"2021-05-14T08:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:11:51","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57859","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My comment on an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0regarding the cessation of a provincial programme for municipalities in British Columbia meant to support and fund climate change initiatives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Not sure what the situation is like in BC surrounding provincial mandates an<\/span>d municipalities, but I would judge a programme that is supposedly to support climate change initiatives \u200bin Ontario municipalities to be primarily about political theatre, certainly not about addressing any type of environmental dilemma. I live in a municipality on the edge of the Greater Toronto Area that has been chasing perpetual growth for many, many years. In fact, it uses this growth to try and attract more growth, marketing itself as one of the fastest growing areas in Ontario and thus the place to live and work.<\/p>\n

This growth comes at a steep cost, if you ask me. That being the expansion of suburban residences over prime agricultural land and sensitive ecological habitat being on the glacial till known as the Oak Ridges Moraine. They have shifted their plot somewhat in arguing that they are concentrating on densification of the town proper (they just approved a large apartment\/condo complex in the middle of town that far exceeds previous \u2018bylaws\u2019 regarding height restrictions \u2014 you know, a one-off exception), yet the construction of residential communities continues unabated in areas outside this supposed new approach as farmland continues to be paved over; adding to the looming crisis Ontario will face as it adds more and more people yet already imports more than 80% of its food.<\/p>\n

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author My comment on an\u00a0article\u00a0regarding the cessation of a provincial programme for municipalities in British Columbia meant to support and fund climate change initiatives. *\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* Not sure what the situation is like in BC surrounding provincial mandates and municipalities, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,150,5833,769,30370],"class_list":["post-57859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-steve-bull","tag-sustainability","tag-todays-contemplation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57860,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57859\/revisions\/57860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}