Ken Burford

🇨🇦 I am a humanist.
Humanity needs to stop growing it's pop. & refocus on growing the quality of everyone's life
Born: 2,075,739,864 Humans
Now: 8,250,000,000

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

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

[Population Institute Canada @PopulationIC]

Today Canada gets a new governor general, Louise Arbour. When Prime Minister Carney appointed her in early May, he said Canada’s history, institutions, and enduring traditions matter more than ever. However, the traditional changing of the guard at Rideau Hall, the governor general’s residence, was cancelled last year. Streets, schools, universities, public squares, and buildings are being renamed because the people they honoured don’t meet all the specs of today’s politically sensitive standards. Historical plaques are being removed from national parks for the same reason. Even Canada’s founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, is being cancelled, including at the law school that once bore his name. Macdonald Hall of Queens University in Kingston, where Macdonald practiced law, is now simply “the Law Building.” Some of the views that Louise Arbour has expressed and her leading role in creating the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (which essentially gives the United Nations control of national borders) suggest she’s very much open to a “postnational” Canada. There is also no evidence that either Carney or Arbour intend to do anything about the erasure of Canada’s past, suggesting that they may be more interested in directing Canada toward globalism than in preserving its history, institutions, and traditions. https://t.co/ezTOpMaoka

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

Don't let the noise & trappings of modern society blind you to reality. The planet sets the limits, not the economy.

Ignore them at your peril.

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

Australia is a massive desert, surrounded by a small inhabitable fringe,
now packed with nearly 30 million humans, all wanting to grow their consumption.

What could go wrong?

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@LCptbo @Chasingharmony1 @mlinto Um. That's not a photo of the islands.

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@blogTO 🤮🤮🤮

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@mikalskuterud Well. You keep artificially growing our population by 500,000/yr. what the F! do you expect?

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@cityoftoronto Better still. Get rid of the lawn. Grow something that doesn't need constant watering.

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

‘I was arrested for civil disobedience … I turned 82 in jail!’ — Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the need for ‘bold action’ on the climate crisis.

There's no time to wait. This planet is all we've got. Defend it. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@TorontoStar To halt the constant lowering of everyone's quality of life, I'd advocate to stop artificially growing Toronto's population and focus our economy on improving every citizen's quality of life.
We, and the environment that we rely on for our survival, don't need more humans.

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney says Canada is in a recession in part due to immigration cuts tanking population growth. He points out "household incomes" are rising.

Startling admission of what restrictionists have always said: mass immigration juices GDP while dragging down standard of living.

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@waterkeepermark @normsworld That picture is supposed to look like "cottage country"???
Man, do we live in a dystopian world!!!☹️

[Brian Graff @Graff2023]

I usually like Douglas Todd, but I think he is giving too much credit to the century Initiative. They have not changed, they are just adopting to their policy preferences having become toxic.
The get funding from the banks and large corporations - and still push for their interests. Their website still includes a lot of pro-high immigration crap.
https://t.co/bDxDyoZECu

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

You have a choice to make:
Biodiversity or economic growth.

Choose carefully, because if you choose the latter,
.. there's no going back.

[cedric @treebeing]

#TheFeds could and should stop this madness. Except they just released a concerning proposal for how “nation-building” projects can be fast-tracked aiming to weaken the guardrails that uphold #environmentalintegrity Canadians need to push back along all levels of the governments.

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

The rich #biodiversity of my childhood is completely alien to the youth of today.
Shifting baseline syndrome sees them accepting our heavily degraded environment as "normal"
... & thus, manageable within the system which drives it.

[Ken Burford @QualtyntQuantty]

@nationalpost & Simon Tuck
There is no #HousingCrisis.
There is a #PopulationGrowthCrisis & a #BrainWashingCrisis led by our fed. gov. & our oligarchs/developers & supported & bullhorned by brainwashers like you @nationalpost and other MSM.

https://t.co/sestoINf9T

[Brian Graff @Graff2023]

"Canada is now one of the hardest places in the developed world to get a construction permit. We’ve built up, layer by layer, a regulatory maze."

Canada has no shortage of housing construction.
Remember the cliche about Toronto have more construction cranes than any city outside of China?
Canada spends about double the percent of GDP on new housing than the US, or the OECD average.
More YIMBY disinformation.
The problem has been high immigration. Prices are dropping, but land and other costs are lagging in many markets.
https://t.co/bl7ScDR6nW

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

If you want to help create a better world you must be prepared to step outside the system,
... & adopt new perspectives.

@SteadyStateEcon
https://t.co/l52h9QRGdU