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If humanity lived like the average resident in India or many developing nations, global resource consumption would stay within Earth’s annual regenerative limit, avoiding an overshoot day entirely.

While not comprehensive, it is a good start

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Indigenous Nations are required to be included in meaningful consultation according to UNDRIPs Free, Prior and Informed Consent framework.

A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta’s government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters.

In a recent letter to the federal and provincial governments the group explicitly said “Consultation cannot be meaningful if First Nations are invited only to discuss how a predetermined project will proceed,” it said.

“Nor can equity ownership, loan guarantees, revenue-sharing, employment, or other proposed benefits be treated as substitutes for consent.”

I am writing to urge the government to reject the newly proposed West Coast pipeline. How can we claim to be a country that values reconciliation when colonial ideologies still inform decisions that directly impact Canada's original inhabitants.

As Canada experiences increasingly severe climate impacts, including record-breaking heat waves, wildfires, and floods, it’s clear that expanding fossil fuel infrastructure will move us in the wrong direction. We should be investing in clean energy and climate resilience, not putting public money to projects that increase emissions and environmental risks.

A new pipeline and even more tanker traffic would increase the risk of oil spills and threaten sensitive coastal ecosystems and marine life, while simultaneously undermining your climate commitments.

Canada has a real opportunity to lead the transition to a cleaner, more resilient economy. Approving another major pipeline – that no energy company has offered to even build – would send the opposite message.

I want to see public funds going towards infrastructure that creates sustainable jobs, environmental stewardship, and overall economic prosperity. I urge you to weigh the pros and cons of this pipeline.

It's hard to remain hopeful when the government prioritize profit over people. If GDP remains the only measure of a countries success we are surely headed for disaster and eventually extinction. With new tools to value ecosystem services we could lead the way to a new way of looking at a healthy economy and environment. In our current political economic system this is the only way I see forward without a complete system overhaul.

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the Anthropocene represents a period in Earth’s history where human activities have surpassed natural planetary processes to become the primary force of global change. We are no longer merely living on Earth; we are actively altering its physical, chemical, and biological systems.

The scale of this human modification is staggering. Today, more than seventy-five percent of the Earth’s ice-free terrestrial surface shows direct evidence of human land use and transformation. This leaves less than a quarter of the land as true wilderness.

While the term Anthropocene is widely used, it faces significant criticism from many academics. Critics argue that blaming humanity as a whole implies that every person shares equal responsibility for this ecological crisis. In reality, the ecological damage is overwhelmingly driven by wealthy, Western industrialized nations, while Indigenous societies have lived sustainably for millennia. To capture these power dynamics, scholars have proposed alternative names. One is the Capitalocene, coined by Jason Moore, which places the blame squarely on the profit-driven dynamics of global capitalism. Another is the Plantationocene, highlighted by Donna Haraway, which focuses on how colonialism, historical slavery, and the plantation system forcibly transformed biodiverse ecosystems into intensive, exploitative monocultures.

Step out onto the wet sand of the Fulford Harbour intertidal zone.

The air is thick with the cold scent of salt and seaweed, and the

squelch of the mud beneath your boots is the only sound breaking

the morning quiet. But if you look down at the water’s edge at low

tide, you aren't just looking at a beach; you are looking at an ancient

masterpiece of engineering. Beneath the shallow tide pools rests a

massive, hand-built stone wall, smoothed by centuries of crashing

waves. This is a ŁOẊEṈ- a W̱SÁNEĆ sea garden.

For generations, mainstream conservation overlooked these

coastlines, assuming they were wild untouched. But geologic data

paired with Indigenous knowledge has flipped the script. According

to a landmark March 2026 milestone report by the W̱SÁNEĆ

Leadership Council & Parks Canada, carbon-dating has revealed that

this underwater stone wall is a staggering 4,500 years old.

Learn more in the first edition of The Altered Biome @ alteredbiome.ca