We know that as climate change steadily closes in around us, our resilience as communities, societies even as a civilization will be tested. Droughts, floods, severe storm events of increasing frequency, duration and intensity are already setting in. Then there’s the environmental threat Maude Barlow warns is almost equally threatening
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The Disaffected Lib: We Need New Ways of Pricing Natural Capital
A case in point. This summer’s B.C. spot prawn season got derailed – by Asia. Delicious local prawns that usually would go for 8-9 dollars a pound were suddenly demanding prices of 38-39 dollars a pound, head on, in Vancouver. What happened? Apparently Asia’s (China’s) shrimp/prawn stocks succumbed to some
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