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SUMMARY:Too much IS too much! Confronting ecological overshoot
DESCRIPTION:The global community is fixated on climate change as the existential threat facing civilization. Bill Rees argues that this focus misses the point entirely.  Global heating is only one symptom of an over-riding meta-problem: ecological overshoot (where societal impacts now exceed the Earth’s capacity to recover) . Overshoot is the inevitable result of excessive material growth on a finite planet driven by industrial capitalism and its hand-maiden\, neoliberal economics. Politically acceptable solutions to global heating are not fixing the climate\, are causing considerable additional environmental damage and are worsening overshoot. Unattended\, overshoot is a terminal condition. What can communities do to increase self-reliance\, enhance food security and otherwise cushion themselves against the coming contraction?NFU climate committee member\, Rick Munroe\, will provide extra context to this conversation about overshoot and growth by presenting on his research on government awareness of this issue. Rick will present about the level of awareness among Government of Canada’s research on this topic and whether or not our federal government has ever analyzed the contradiction between two competing goals: constant economic growth versus ecological health & long-term resource requirements
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/too-much-is-too-much-confronting-ecological-overshoot/
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SUMMARY:A better world is possible! Utopia in Thought and Action
DESCRIPTION:Utopia is usually considered to be an ideal that exists only in thought but is unable to change our everyday lives. However\, William Paris  believes utopia in fact helps us develop our creative capacities and reshape ordinary life. Utopia is not an ideal created by philosophers– it is the real struggle in our everyday lives to organize the spaces of our lives around freedom\, flourishing\, and solidarity instead of accumulation\, alienation\, and domination. Imagining a better world for farmers\, farming and agriculture is an essential tool for change. Bringing together the space of thought and the space of life is the most important  task of utopia.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/a-better-world-is-possible-utopia-in-thought-and-action/
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