Overpopulation, or Over-consumerism?
Alicia Priest’s facts in “Too Much of a Good Thing” [SVHealth, August] are seemingly correct about our richest fifth consuming 86 per cent of all goods, services, and natural resources (while the poorest fifth consume less than 2 per cent!). But she then promotes all the wrong solutions. She fervently pushes for yet another family-planning crusade as the only realistic solution.
Yet only a return to a sustainable agrarian-based culture in real harmony with God’s natural technology can possibly reverse the disastrous course we are now stuck on. So there’s actually not enough of this good thing. We need not just population reduction, but rather a drastic change in humankind’s destructive urbanization… Perhaps our children’s children will enact this sea-change towards a new beginning.
—Guy Paquette, Burnaby
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The response to our reader survey has been overwhelming. We’d like to share just a few of the comments that have come in so far.
SharedVISION’s commitment to and coverage of environmentally and ethically beneficial products, services, and events is the best of its sort in Vancouver. I appreciate the easy-to-follow layout and condensed writing—I can get the major points of each article within a short time, which is a plus since time is something I never have enough of!
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I love reading about other people or different ways we can reduce our ecological footprint. It makes you realize you are not the only one trying to make a change. It makes you feel optimistic. There are always so many amazing people/opinions published.
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The appeal is to both “newbies” and to knowledgeable and articulate people of the socially and environmentally conscious consumer [audience]. I’ve been reading the magazine for years and it’s still fresh and current. It keeps me striving to keep
improving myself and do even more for myself, my family, the community, and the
Earth.
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