https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-bc-nature-protection-agreement/
"It’s been an extraordinary month for nature protection in British Columbia. A
slew of unprecedented funding and legislative announcements have come in almost
too fast to keep up with. Taken together, they underscore a sea change in the
stewardship of Canada’s most biodiverse province. This marks a historic turning
point for B.C., and a potential road map for the rest of Canada — one that was
unimaginable when Premier David Eby first took office under the cloud of an
ugly tussle with the environmental movement just one year ago.
The changes are so vast that “nature protection” fails to capture the magnitude
of events. What’s happening before our eyes is a whole-of-society
restructuring. Think of it as a personal makeover for a region twice the size
of France, trying to recover from the hangover of 150 years of colonial
plunder.
Garry Merkel, the Tahltan co-author of the
Old Growth Strategic Review,
described this to me in January as the creation of a “governance
superstructure.” The goal is to integrate a system of governance that already
exists — the provincial government — with a collective First Nations body being
created in the wake of the
Declaration on the Rights Of Indigenous Peoples’
Act. Those two bodies will have joint decision-making power over resource
extraction throughout the province, in consultation with local communities and
individual First Nations.
Crucially, those decisions will be guided by ecosystem-based management — the
“paradigm shift” that Merkel and others have urged for years, whereby
policymakers prioritize ecosystem health over industry profit. That’s a feat
very few jurisdictions on Earth have managed to pull off.
To be clear, B.C. hasn’t pulled it off yet either. But a lot more than words
are on the table now. Back in January, Merkel could only promise that big
things were coming. Now some of those big things have arrived, and the contours
of B.C.’s superstructure are finally coming into view.
So what’s actually happened?"
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
