As anyone who has ever Googled my name could tell you, I was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada in the mid-1980s.
So as we approach the latest federal election, I thought it would be helpful to discuss what it is that makes the Greens so distinct.
Its stark conclusion was that under a “business as usual” model, “the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years.
But it was the third book, Blueprint for Survival, that led to the creation of the world’s first ecological political parties.
Finding little prospect that current political groupings could or would act to address this dire situation, the Blueprint stated boldly “the situation .
right squabbling about who gets to control and benefit from the ever-expanding pie is to completely miss the point; the pie cannot continue to expand, indeed it must contract.