WE NEED THE GREENBELT 

 

Nature is experiencing a cataclysm, the UN reported that up to a million plants and mammal species could become extinct including our precious pollinators.  

On 450, 000 species of plants depend entirely on pollinators that frequent our green spaces.

Here in Canada, we have over 850 native bee species and many of those are at the risk of extinction. A great variety of pollinators actually help pollinate over 100 food crops, including fruits, veggies, and nuts.

  In addition to the food we eat, pollinators also support healthy ecosystems that improve air quality, stabilize soils, and support other wildlife.

Seeing that paving over paradise has magnified the impacts of global overheating, it is therefore of utmost importance, that we protect, maintain, and enhance as much biological diversity as possible for very own survival here on Earth.

Wild naturalized green spaces, such as our Greenbelt, provide hundreds of millions of dollars in ecosystem services every year.

 A greener, wilder, and more naturalized Ontario contributes to the health and well-being of all of us.

  We need to strengthen the fragile strands of the web of life by allowing the native flora to flourish, in as many green spaces as possible, rather than destroying them forever by encroaching development in to the mu needed Greenbelt.

  Tom Crowther from ETH Zürich, recently discovered that the most effective, least expensive, and easiest way to reduce global overheating and mitigate the catastrophic impacts of our climate is to plant trees.

How many trees will recklessly be destroyed forever so the Ford Government can ensure big profits for developers?


 I remember clearly when you Mr. Ford, was first elected you kept spouting ad nauseam that your government was for the people and you also emphatically you would not touch the Greenbelt.


Your campaign bus was emblazoned with the logo “For the People”.

How many of people of Ontario have urged you to go ahead and develop large swaths of the Greenbelt?

I personally have heard from hundreds of my contacts and they all want to protect the Greenbelt in perpetuity.

By stubbornly insisting that the building of million dollar homes in the Greenbelt should proceed at all costs, one gets the impression that the only  PEOPLE you are serving are the developers. 

I challenge the government to hold a binding referendum on the development of the Greenbelt.



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