The real threat is environmentalists, bureaucrats and politicians
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Industrial action and over-hunting eviscerated species in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s in America, but all are long recovered. The environmental Kuznet’s Curve demonstrates that as median income rises - starting at $5000 per capita - environmental protection rises just as fast. I am part of the new generation in the country, sharply aware of its vulnerability, beauty and its resilience. “Nature,” says America’s most prominent philosopher of natural science, Alston Chase, “is far more resilient than man.”
The environmental movement was taken over by multinational corporate interests sometime in the early 2000’s and twisted to its purpose which is to say taking as much land away from individuals or families and banking it for themselves. Environmental NGO’s now dance to their tune, inflict
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/all-species-are-thriving-but-man
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....