{"id":59957,"date":"2021-10-18T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59957"},"modified":"2021-10-18T05:56:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:56:39","slug":"reporters-call-for-trudeau-to-grow-the-economy-ignores-threat-to-humanitys-very-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59957","title":{"rendered":"Reporter\u2019s call for Trudeau to grow the economy ignores threat to humanity\u2019s very\u00a0survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/17\/reporters-call-for-trudeau-to-grow-the-economy-ignores-threat-to-humanitys-very-survival\/\">Reporter\u2019s call for Trudeau to grow the economy ignores threat to humanity\u2019s very\u00a0survival<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Read my critical letter in reply to reporter John Ivison, of the National Post, who wrote the article. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My letter to John Ivison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear John Ivison,<\/p>\n<p>Your article \u201c<em>How Trudeau wasted a chance to spark Canadian economic growth during the pandemic<\/em>\u201d reflects your appalling ignorance of humanity\u2019s existential predicament.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of unrelenting global economic growth have driven us to a planetary breaking point of ecological overshoot \u2013 way too many people are using way too much energy and material resources and dumping way too much waste.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there\u2019s already way too much disinformation and misinformation in circulation. As a newspaper reporter, you have an added responsibility to become responsibly informed about the science-based reality of the human predicament. Judging from your readers\u2019 comments to your article, you, sir, are adding to the dissemination of disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>But that is about what I have come to expect from the rightwing National Post.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<p>Frank White, etc.<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts from Ivison\u2019s article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/john-ivison-how-trudeau-wasted-a-chance-to-spark-canadian-economic-growth-during-the-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Trudeau wasted a chance to spark Canadian economic growth during the pandemic<\/a><\/em>, That\u2019s the title of reporter John Ivison\u2019s article that appeared in the National post\u2019s Saturday, October 16 edition.<\/p>\n<p>Ivison\u2019s article, 1934 words in length \u2014 reposted in full at the bottom of this post \u2014 begins:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Liberal government is more focused on redistributing the existing economic pie than generating the wealth needed to ensure future prosperity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul Romer coined the phrase \u201c<em>a crisis is a terrible thing to waste<\/em>\u201d back in 2004. \u201c<em>I tried to suggest that there is a risk of complacency in ordinary times and that a crisis is the time when you might be able to mobilize some coordinated efforts to do better,<\/em>\u201d the Nobel Prize-winning economist said in an interview with the National Post this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter\u2019s call for Trudeau to grow the economy ignores threat to humanity\u2019s very\u00a0survival Read my critical letter in reply to reporter John Ivison, of the National Post, who wrote the article. \u2014 My letter to John Ivison Dear John Ivison, Your article \u201cHow Trudeau wasted a chance to spark Canadian economic growth during the pandemic\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[30675,30960,391,16037,10377,3197],"class_list":["post-59957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-citizen-action-monitor","tag-frank-white","tag-growth","tag-john-ivison","tag-national-post","tag-overshoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59957","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=59957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59958,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59957\/revisions\/59958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}