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[cedric @treebeing]

#protectHighPark #biodiversity
Five years ago, Passover Full Moon would be only light spilling over Grenadier Pond in High Park. Those, calling now Provincially Significant Wetland home, could live less disturbed lives. So could we, people.
Keep city out of TO's remaining nature!

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @pothen I don't think @pmcondon2 ignores the population role in the overshoot and high immigration into western countries making this worse. Nevertheless, his focus is on the fact that upzoning on urban land does not produce affordability, which is the Yimby argument.

[cedric @treebeing]

#EnvironmentalDefence @Pothen do not read the books directly challenging the now-dominant "just build more housing" account of urban housing crises associated with broader YIMBY policy consensus.
Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality and Urban Crisis https://t.co/MNaXsZdJkH

[Graham Churchill @GraChurch]

Oh boy. Environmental Defence’s checklist gets the economics totally wrong. It treats as-of-right upzoning as a way to “lower land costs” when in fact, it does the opposite.

Land is a perpetual call option; expanding what can be built on a lot raises residual land value. It gets capitalized immediately as a windfall to existing landowners.

Ontario’s housing shortage is driven by immigration-led demand growth. Unlocking more sites without capturing the uplift or addressing demand just transfers property rights to the rich and concentrates location premiums.

[Graham Churchill @GraChurch]

Oh boy. Environmental Defence’s checklist gets the economics totally wrong. It treats as-of-right upzoning as a way to “lower land costs” when in fact, it does the opposite.

Land is a perpetual call option; expanding what can be built on a lot raises residual land value. It gets capitalized immediately as a windfall to existing landowners.

Ontario’s housing shortage is driven by immigration-led demand growth. Unlocking more sites without capturing the uplift or addressing demand just transfers property rights to the rich and concentrates location premiums.

[John Pasalis @JohnPasalis]

The Carney government says its budget is about Canada’s economic sovereignty

The same budget lets foreign investors buy up Canada’s new homes

You can’t have both 🧵

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @Graff2023 @pothen @envirodefence #EcologicaBlindSpot
Adding more people, more homes makes a lot of sense to those, who like Pothen, believe into never ending growth, high immigration, intensification, people riding transit, cities being more energy efficient, renewables replacing fossil.
https://t.co/AaBJwk0hkd

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @Graff2023 @pothen @envirodefence The left really is no more. Most ENGOs adopted the "The Third Way" incl. The #EcologicalBlindspot". ENGOs, e.g. ED, now support high immigration growth policies pretending it is good for climate change, as long as people are squeezed in big cities & green echnologies in place.

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @Graff2023 @pothen You are wasting your time trying to make sense of @pothen's arguments regarding immigration, sustainable pop regionally, as a country or globally. At best, he is a confused ideologue (environmental justice), at worst, a kind of Century Initive's shill. Too bad for @envirodefence

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @Graff2023 @pothen @envirodefence The left really is no more. Most ENGOs adopted the "The Third Way" incl. The #EcologicalBlindspot". ENGOs, e.g. ED, now support high immigration growth policies pretending it is good for climate change, as long as people are squeezed in big cities & green echnologies in place.

[cedric @treebeing]

@GraChurch @Graff2023 @pothen You are wasting your time trying to make sense of @pothen's arguments regarding immigration, sustainable pop regionally, as a country or globally. At best, he is a confused ideologue (environmental justice), at worst, a kind of Century Initive's shill. Too bad for @envirodefence

[cedric @treebeing]

@ezralevant Bruce Pen Nat. Park closed for camping more than 2 months prior season end upsetting many. The result of extr. high/unsustainable use, ignoring of rules, the absence of enforcement. Bears attracted by barbecues became a danger.
Last thing needed #CanadaStrongPass
@MarkJCarney

[cedric @treebeing]

Bruce Pen Nat. Park closed for camping more than 2 months prior season end upsetting many. The result of extr. high/unsustainable use, ignoring of rules, the absence enforcement. Bears attracted by barbecues became a danger.
Last thing needed is #CanadaStrongPass @MarkJCarney

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Nearly 3,000 Parks Canada employees face potential job cuts https://t.co/gDZOSvwz5W

[cedric @treebeing]

@globeandmail Bruce Pen NatPark closed for camping more than 2 months prior season end upsetting many. This has resulted from extr. high/unsustainable use, ignoring of rules, the absent enforcement. Bears attracted by barbecues became a danger? The last thing needed is "Canada Strong Pass".

[cedric @treebeing]

#Environmentalism shifting=#EcologicalBlindspot
Also the #left has became part of the #problem. There are three distinct eras where the Left—or factions within it—aligned with corporate growth priorities, effectively ignoring the physical limits of ecological carrying capacity.

[Brian Graff @Graff2023]

Conservative governments have been part of the problem of our unsustainably high immigration and NPR policies, going back to Mulroney. But the worst was under Justin Trudeau.

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 Also the left has became part of the problem. There are three distinct eras where the Left—or factions within it—aligned with corporate growth priorities, effectively ignoring the physical limits of ecological carrying capacity. Below describes the most recent case.

[cedric @treebeing]

Recent #federalbudget by @MarkJCarney is poised to accelerate job losses of Canadians in favor of a steady supply of low-wage labor to fuel GDP growth. This will only accelerate #climatechange #ecologicaldeficit globally and locally in Canada. #Shorttermist

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Canada is bringing in approx 20000 temporary foreign workers monthly. As of October 2026, Canada has recorded a net loss of approximately 45,900 jobs for the year to date, Canada loses net 4,700 jobs in October, jobless rate rises to 6.7%. Canadian workes are being replaced by foreign workers.
https://t.co/WMkscteKpf

[cedric @treebeing]

Book review: Is high immigration really ‘In our interest’? https://t.co/umEdpHdsXI via @TheOverpopulat1

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 @pothen "It is like someone has hypnotized them or brainwashed them on immigration" - Whether this the lack of education on the role of population, spec. immigration from the global south to global north in overshoot, the ideology (woke, etc.), or being shills to Century Initiative100?

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 @pothen What you are describing is not the view along Doug Saunders “Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians are not Enough” likely shared by some: · "underpopulation harms Canada’s climate and ecological prospects”
· underpopulation forces us to use energy-inefficient transportation"..

[cedric @treebeing]

@Graff2023 @pothen Left has chosen to ignore physical reality of more density in cities growing demands on renewable resources. Smart growth is just more growth. Not truly sustainable just packing more people into cities for now who cares about tomorrow. Looking into post-growth not on the menu?

[cedric @treebeing]

Denial of impacts of the growth fueled by #massimmigration into the western countries, e.g. Canada, is paradoxical @pothen. Supporting argument about needing more people along Doug Saunders “Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians are not Enough” pleases #CenturyInitiative100

[Brian Graff @Graff2023]

Well Phil @pothen, we would not need more highways if Ontario's/Canada's population had not grown so much since 2015.
Buying back the 407 makes more sense. But more people means more need for highways, particularly for trucking.
But Environmental Defense does not seem to ever think or mention population growth from immigration as a major cause of environmental degradation in Canada.
Shame on you.