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Trevor Hancock: Is B.C. about to radically transform governance? (Times Colonist)


If a draft framework is adopted, the BC government would commit to the conservation and management of ecosystem health and biodiversity as an overarching priority . . . .

. . . . It seems something is afoot in the body ­politic and the halls of government, something that might ­challenge those core beliefs and subvert the ­assumptions and practices accepted by modern ­societies: ecology. Taken seriously and applied to our society, it ­challenges our current system, which we can see has created massive and rapid global ecological change and high levels of inequality.

Slowly, haltingly, governments and international organizations, including the United Nations, have been groping toward these new core beliefs and values . . . .

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