Ken Burford

Quality not quantity Just think how much better society could be if we stopped spending $ on things to cope with the constantly growing numbers of us & spent that on improving everyone's quality of life. Someone needs to think us out of this "growth in quantity" Ponzi-like scheme

Time 4 u ageist MSM rags @TorontoStar 2 fold. What a shit article by another ageist Jessica Barrett, like @GenSqueeze. The #HousingCrisis is caused by r fed. gov.'s insane pop. growth policy, nothing else. The housing shortage made many boomers rich ... thestar.com/news/insight/b…

@kristynwongtam Stop building. Stop growing our population. You're lowering everyone's quality of life and destroying our environment. We have enough concrete, glass and pavement (full of potholes).

Why is Ford so OBSESSED with Toronto’s waterfront? From the Billy Bishop airport, Ontario Place, his island and a convention centre-spa duo, the list goes ON. We do NOT need a premier who’s trying to cosplay the city mayor, nor spend billions of taxpayers' dollars in investment projects to line his corporate buddies' pockets. We need a leader who’s focused on the needs of Ontarians and building a province that’s liveable for ALL.

So this is the environment we have consciously chosen with full understanding of its ramifications and effects on both ourselves and other creatures?

@valdombre @Graff2023 That's what a high quality of life looks like? To whom? 🤮🤮🤮 To me this looks like developer phallic symbols/highrise corporate slave sardine cans.

This is the future Century Initiative wants. 100 million skyscraper renters speaking 100 different languages.

Humans have "grown" populations and economies to such a scale that we now have the capacity to destroy an entire planet, ... but as each sees only their small contribution, not the aggregate impact, few understand the extent and danger of #overshoot, of this magnitude.

Time is running out. We *must* act! But act how? The big game changer is #degrowth - populations & economies must come down together in a planned, managed & coordinated way until we reach a scale we can manage. Forget "green growth".. it's a lie. #LiveWithinLimits

The flawed economics of mass immigration have a lag effect, ... the worst of it is yet to come, the poor will suffer most & the downward slide will be far deeper than most of you understand. Mark this post- check in 5 years to see if I was right.

@cabinsmountain I hate to bring this up yet again, but when you've got 8.2 billion to feed, the pressure is on to maximise yields, regardless of eco-costs. If we downsize, genuine sustainability & a clean planet become so much easier to achieve. But then most cannot even conceive of that path.

On March 12, US Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) introduced a bill to be called the Assimilation Act that would severely limit immigration into the United States as well as require far more stringent vetting of newcomers to ensure that they will assimilate into US society. It would essentially negate the Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Celler Act) of 1965. Regardless of how one feels about the extensive objectives of Ogle’s bill, and the fact that it has a low probability of passing, it does reveal the destabilizing effect that the very high immigration levels of recent decades have had on the US and other western countries. youtube.com/watch?v=p7w-_l…

@SustPopAus @Karmageddon67 @123jillwalker @lesuknight @Pop_Stop_2100 @HardBackStrider @Ecoyenta @kty_pennyworth @NoBigAustralia @solve_overpop @PopnMatters @PopulationIC @PopInstitute @EarthOvershoot @TheOverpopulat1 @SirAbegao @ChrisGPackham @GeochemOz @GaryWockner @TedGaribaldi @GlenColton @IDAUSA @JoelMCurzon @KlausQuats @QualtyntQuantty @elisetempelhoff @fewerchildren @FewerHumans @welshdai15 @LicypriyaK @xiyebastida @releaf4us @vict_barrett @johnpauljos @Luisamneubauer @israhirsi @HollyWildChild @xiuhtezcatl @AdamBandt @MChandlerMather @Greens Yes, too hopeful😰 Wishful thinking! The "Greens" we have "folllow the money" just like all the others 🥵👎

@QualtyntQuantty @gteasts @SteadyStateEcon The evidence would agree with you. Even now as #overshoot threatens to destroy us in a short term corporate profit grab, people still clutch at techno fantasies, personal comforts & dodgy statistics so as not to see the core issue.

@ColinDMello Long live our authoritarian growthocracy.✊️😑 R.I.P. our natural environment that we must have to survive. ... wait a minute!😲 R.I.P. humanity.☹️

NEW: The Federal and Ontario governments will spend $8.8 billion / 10 years to reduce municipal development charges by 50% #onpoli

@martinrev21 @gteasts @SteadyStateEcon Looks like we humans are too greedy and stupid to decide. Evidence? Just look at human's behaviour as we have evolved. We have consumed everything to extinction or very close to extinction. My guess is the the decision is up to the planet.🤔

Do you really think nature can survive the "economic growth machinery" ? @SteadyStateEcon steadystate.org #LiveWithinLimits

@CanadaGray #TOwaterfront is a critical point in N/A #birdmigration @juliedabrusin @MarkJCarney. Messaging @fordnation on #BillyBishopAirport expansion as an opportunity Ontario, Canada can't afford to waste manifests an extreme human exceptionalism - a denial of nature being our foundation.

" Yet Somehow They Call This Growth?" I watch as our populations & economies get bigger I watch as our politicians proudly proclaim “growth!” I watch as banks report record profits & land speculators get rich, I watch as they jointly proclaim “growth” I watch as our forests are bulldozed, our oceans emptied of life, our planet toxified, our biodiversity ravaged & our climate destabilised I watch as they proclaim “growth!” I see my people’s lives in decline... read on: medium.com/p/701f687ed956…

Auditor General Karen Hogan reported on March 23 that while Immigration Canada had taken measures to get the growth of the International Student Program under control, its efforts to strengthen integrity measures had fallen short. Indeed. There were approximately 150,000 cases of students already in Canada who were flagged as potentially not complying with the terms of their study permits, but the department only had enough funding to investigate 4000. Maybe because the government was spending so much money on health services (over one billion dollars) for the tens of thousands of asylum claimants it was accepting. Many of the articles we’ve published suggest that the government of Canada used “backdoor” methods to drive up Canada’s population and turned a blind eye to fraud. This picture, “Come to Study, Stay to Live,” that we received from someone in Columbia suggests that the government was making efforts to recruit students as future immigrants. canada.ca/en/auditor-gen…

If Toronto wants to attract people, it needs parks to make it liveable, not airports that will turn its waterfront into an unattractive, unliveable shithole.

WE SEEM INTENT ON DESTROYING A PERFECTLY HABITABLE PLANET.