Mastodawn

*I think Eby's the current, problematic BC politician in Premier power role. The core problem is that #BCNDP haven't really respected #IndigenousRights for a long time. Their caucus became too whipped under Horgan & that's continued under Eby - who was groomed by the former neoliberal in charge of BC policies.*

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says the NDP has a “colossal” leadership problem, and if it doesn’t move on from Premier David Eby, the party could be doomed for decades. “I think the problem is Premier Eby,” he said at a Friday morning news conference in Vancouver held by Indigenous leaders opposed to a proposed suspension of parts of the Declaration on the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples Act (DRIPA).

Phillip spoke alongside the #FirstNations Leadership Council, which is made up of members of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. The groups held a joint news conference in Vancouver on Friday (April 10), slamming the B.C. NDP government’s DRIPA suspension plan, a move the council had called a “unilateral betrayal” on Thursday. #DRIPA is a 2019 B.C. law that formally commits the province to aligning its laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ( #UNDRIP ), which affirms the right to #SelfDetermination for #Indigenous peoples worldwide.

#BCpoli #DavidEby #LandBack #NoConsent #Capitalism #Colonialism #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #CanadaIsAllNativeLand #BCGovernment #SueTheGovernment

‘The problem is Premier Eby’: B.C. NDP’s leadership taken to task over DRIPA

Indigenous leaders voice opposition to DRIPA suspension plan

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Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

Replacing one neoliberal capitalist with a younger neoliberal capitalist, only guarantees you have a younger, more energetic neoliberal capitalist. All of the above selfish neoliberals are just fine with screwing over you/other citizens & Indigenous communities - if doing so helps them to gain more backroom bribes/personal financial gains/social status benefits.

#BCpoli #SleazyPoliticians #NeverTrustTheGovernment #Neoliberals #BCNDP

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Amgine 1d ago

@PhoenixSerenity

This seems to highlight that the problem is *not* M Eby, per se. It is corruption, primarily based in the economic system.

The wealth disparity results in greater pressures at all levels of society. Not only is there greater *need* to do anything/everything to become financially secure, there is also the unacknowledged fear you may be targeted by the wealthy if you do not do what they want.

E.g. Jody Wilson-Raybould.

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Ms. Que Banh 1d ago

@Amgine That's pretty much why unfettered capitalism is killing people & ecosystems. I was getting into degrowth mindset a few decades ago because of concerns about what you've mentioned - a system where political corruption is built in/dependent on infinite growth. A system where eco/social justice is denied more often than not.

I know/have worked with Bill Wilson, Jody's Dad. The government screwed them both over, multiple times, multiple ways. There is justified distrust of government.

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Analog AI

@PhoenixSerenity @Amgine A part of the issue is that people don't seem to connect "2% growth per year" with exponential growth (which it is). Even growing by a constant amount per year (say $500,000) will eventually tax the ecosystem as well as any social systems.

People need to realize that
(1) In the very long run, growth must be zero when averaged across all endevors: to grow anything we must shrink something else, and
(2) having broken rule (1) for quite a while now, we likely need to SHRINK to fit our ecosystems.

That means that the average return on investment needs to be 0%. If someone thinks it should be higher, they need to show what will shrink to accommodate their growth.

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝1h ago

@Retreival9096

This is for growth in anything physical. People can write more and more novels and the storage capacity of computers does not really grow exponentially to handle that except possibly at age of the universe timescales. Same goes for things like writing software, doing most art (although the physical version may eventually have to go) etc.

Also services. There can be growth in the quality and knowledge behind services.

@PhoenixSerenity @Amgine

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Daniel Lakeland 1h ago

@richpuchalsky

Even exponential growth of novel writing really implies exponential growth of population. Basically everything worth thinking about has some physical component that requires consideration. We can start with the big components though. Shipping, cars, heating and cooling buildings with fossil fuels etc. etc.

@Retreival9096 @PhoenixSerenity @Amgine

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝1h ago

@dlakelan

People read novels written a long time ago. It's not exponential growth of *current* population.

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Daniel Lakeland 13m ago

@richpuchalsky
that only supports linear growth of novels, though (constant population and some upper bound on novels written per person per year). And even with that in the very long term, we have to choose what to preserve and what to lose to history.

Its not an important point initially because there are lots more intense consumption forms, but even just knowledge must stop growing at some point because of the physical embodiment of data storage.

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Analog AI 32m ago

@richpuchalsky @PhoenixSerenity @Amgine
Just considering services out of your list of examples: for services to grow exponentially, either the providers of the service need to grow exponentially, or the work per provider does (or both). Painful as it is to contemplate, exponential growth must go.