Mr. Legault seems to want to suggest that he governed us like a “good father” of a family, especially during the pandemic. However, for future generations, how does he govern? It is clear that he is blind and or deaf to the major problems that future generations will have to face.
In fact, we cannot continue to maintain a megamachine that converts the natural world into waste. […] Climate change is just one of the problems that future generations will have to face. Upstream, more and more resources are withdrawn at a rate higher than their rate of renewal—for those that are renewed—and downstream, more pollution is generated than the system can absorb—for what is absorbable. From upstream to downstream, the pressure exerted by human activities on the “earth system” now exceeds its capacity to absorb them (Arthur Keller).
The world has physical, biological and ecological limits. Earth system scientists have established nine limits that must not be exceeded, or risk endangering the earth system. Already, six limits have been exceeded: climate change, biogeochemical cycles, loss of biodiversity, use of fresh water, change in land use, pollution that makes ecosystems toxic.
Some politicians and economists can play by the rules of economics, but not by those of physics, biology and ecology. Let us be vigilant in the face of the challenges that we and future generations will have to face.
Let’s stop being blind and deaf to these visionless speeches. If we don’t change our view of the economy, nature will call us to order sooner rather than later.
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