Re-industrialize Vancouver
Bringing manufacturing and farming back to the city may be the only way to create an environmentally and socially sustainable world. Like most western cities, Vancouver has become almost completely de-industrialized. The goods (and increasingly also the services) that form our daily existence are produced far away under conditions we don't tolerate here. As a result much of our ecological and social footprint is exported and hidden from view, resulting in increasing environmental devastation and social inequality. Bringing these activities back home—into the city core—will give us the opportunity to address the social and ecological consequences of our production and consumption.
If we continue on our current path Vancouver will become a resort city for the wealthy, a fantasy land that serves to buffer its residents from the true consequences of their actions.
Alexg
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Teresa Kühl
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Alexg, altough I agree if you, I don't believe the government would allow or encourage companies to bring manufactoring to Vancouver. Once manufactorings usually produce lots of toxic residuos and garbage, the government would not take the risk of encreasing its level of polution in Vancouver.
On the other hand, the conditions of production of others factors, wihch we wouldn't tolarete here, could be research by a serious institution and showed to the cunsomers by massive medias, such as internet. So, being aware of the conditions of production would encourage cunsomers to be more critic about their purchases, in order to avoid not green products.