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Canadians care deeply about protecting our natural environment while preserving our quality
of life. Consequently, we need sensible environmental and
natural resources policies based on a thorough understanding of
science, engineering and economics.
Yet, in many cases this is not what we have been getting.
Impractical and exorbitantly expensive policies directed towards
‘global climate control’, unrealistic emission standards and
so-called ‘green energy’, promoted by ideologically-driven
‘environmentalists’, are being widely accepted and vigorously
promoted by mass media and politicians at all levels of
government. Rational debate on these issues is virtually
non-existent and alternative points of view are not given a
proper hearing. Many Canadians have never heard ‘the other side’
of issues such as climate change and alternative energy and they
have been conditioned to believe the other side is always
suspect.
This problem is not unique to the energy sector and the climate
change/pollution debate, although these are signature examples.
All natural resources management in Canada - forestry, fishing,
mining, water management and agriculture included – have for
years been targets of environmental extremists. Over the past
decades, mainstream environmentalism has managed to imbed a
strong anti-development mentality in the Canadian popular
psyche, without debate about the science, the economics or the
social impact of such an approach on the relationship between
humanity and the physical world. This mentality results in bad
environmental policy and has serious negative implications for
our society’s well-being. By maintaining a sense of a constant
state of crisis, these advocates have thoroughly distorted the
policy process.
The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP) is offered as a
means to redress this serious problem. A federally incorporated,
non-profit, non-partisan organization, NRSP will help balance
the debate on the environment in Canada and abroad. .
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