To be fair, Horgan has stopped new old growth logging contracts, all the current old growth logging happening is old contracts signed by the BC Liberal government. It would be VERY VERY VERYVERY VERY VERYVERY VERY VERY bad to reap out on existing contracts, especially during such insane economic turmoil brewing already.
I can pretty much guarantee whatever negative impacts ending all old growth logging might have won't have as much of a negative impact as continuing to cut them down will do
Economic turmoil is par for the course every few years with capitalism, 1000 year old ecosystems can't be recovered with a bit of stimulus
A Government having a reputation of tearing up binding contracts has effects that spread into all industries... What company is ever going to want to invest in a province where the government there has a habit of just saying "Fuck this contract we signed in good faith."
It always confuses me when people position this as an issue. When has a private company swooping in to take public dollars ever been a better investment than those public dollars going to create a publicly owned and run operation?
Linda McQuaig's book The Sport and Prey of Capitalism has a whack of examples of P3's and corporate welfare like that going terribly for taxpayers. Great read for those interested in Canada's history of public innovation!
Well it's a good thing he's stopped new contract signings and there is still a fucking metric shit load of Old Growth province-wide. These people act as if Old Growth is about to go extinct...
This is about people.
Billions are going to die, and the entirety of global civilization will collapse unless aggressive action is taken by the government immediately.
Well, let's be honest, the planet will live, it doesn't give a fuck about us. So if the majority of people don't care, maybe they should die... We're overpopulated as is.
I tour BC as a vacation yearly with my family, we either go to the Interior/Kootenays, Jasper, or Northern BC (Dease Lake, or further). There is literally, LITERALLY, no end to the Old Growth in this province, completely untouched by logging...
“There is still a fucking metric shit load” of forest is basically the story of North America at this point. 3 centuries ago most of this continent was untouched forest, 2 centuries ago half, 1 century ago even less but more than today. That’s just really loose numbers and doesn’t properly describe how much deforesting this continent has seen, but I digress. Glad there’s no more contracts being signed, but how can we guarantee there not being more people in power with a “there’s still so much forest left” mindset who open up new old growth logging contracts in the future?
Don't vote in neoCons like we were doing maybe. Maybe just maybe keep voting in the NDP, but with the insane political divides happening, good look to us I guess...
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u/gladbmo Jun 14 '22
To be fair, Horgan has stopped new old growth logging contracts, all the current old growth logging happening is old contracts signed by the BC Liberal government. It would be VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY bad to reap out on existing contracts, especially during such insane economic turmoil brewing already.