We have learned that the Quebec government does not want to recognize the existence of the Eastern Wolf as a species. Why? Because this species is, according to the federal government, threatened, and its protection would result in commercial losses.
“The ban on the ‘recreational activities’ of hunting and trapping wolves could have negative economic repercussions on the province.” (THE Duty of August 9, 2024, A3)
Since the beginning of civilizations, we have persisted in seeing nature as our property, and its inhabitants as objects. In the name of unbridled business and this humanist ideology that has separated culture and nature, we have always acted as invaders of our own planet, giving ourselves all rights over it. And even in the act of extinction of species or ecosystems, we justify ourselves by privileging our economy and our comfort, regardless of the costs, in the medium and long term, for future generations, but also for the living and the non-living that we are destroying in the present. Economic domination, religion and colonialism have always opted for the convenient metamorphosis of beings into things. We were thus able to act accordingly, whether with African slaves, First Peoples, women, the poor, farm or wild animals, in short “the other than oneself”, when the self is this excessive ego, sick of its own culture, eager to conquer everything, to possess everything.
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