PLANET IN PERIL

Diane Gray - 06/9/2011 - Winnipeg Free Press - View From the West The Golden Boy faces north from his lofty perch-- serving as a bold reminder of the unrealized economic potential.... Details here.   Courtesy of Manitoba, eh? PLT - I wonder just how much is enough for the human species? Winnipeg & Manitoba are already beautiful places with lots of natural beauty, physical infrastructure and cultural resources. Just how much further must we go to "realize our potential" by making it ever-easier to move people and widgets from here to the far corners of the continent. As far as I'm concerned, "Centre Port" is an exercise it excess which will only enrich the pockets of the few, worsen traffic gridlock and climate change while doing little to advance the human condition. "We can build it - therefore we must need it," might as well be the rallying cry. Globalization has already been shown to be a failure on so many levels. Lets stop bowing down

June 9, 2011 - Manitoba Co-Operator Canada's agriculture department has lowered its estimates of crop harvested areas, as flooding and excessive rain look to leave much land fallow this year. Details here.

Barry Estabrook - ONEARTH - 05/27/11 Feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock is leading to an emerging human health crisis -- one scientists and the government have seen coming for decades.   Details here.

June 7 '11 Manitoba Co-Operator The federal government says it's "prepared to discuss" a plan to help all provinces and territories build up their infrastructure to better withstand floods in the future. Details here. MIKE.DEAL@FREEPRESS.MB.CA Delta Beach, at the south end of Lake Manitoba,  a victim of high water aggravated by high winds. Because the lake is so shallow,  wind is especially damaging. PLT : Once again, the brain-dead morons who control our lives believe digging deeper ditches in the absence of meaningful action to combat climate change, will solve all of our problems. These climate crooks belong in jail for neglecting the root-causes of the crisis that is beginning to ravage us all.   l.p.

Environment Canada - June 8 '11 Preserving our Forests, Protecting our Future
 June 5-11, 2011 Details here. Goldfinch. l.p. photo