Task
- Option One: Collaborate with a partner and find a local example of the issues highlighted in this story.
- Option Two: In small groups, discuss the issues being debated in this story. What are your thoughts? What context needs to be understood in order to move forward? Is there a solution?
What do you think?
- Do you think nature plays an important role in sustaining our economy?
- How does nature impact the economy where you live?
- How does the economy impact nature?
- Can we afford to protect biodiversity without a strong and healthy resource industry?
- Does the health of the resource industry impact your community?
- Can we balance economic growth with environmental sustainability without watering down the bottom line of either issue?
- How might this debate impact - or be impacted by - your future career?
Terms & Concepts
- Streamkeeper
- Community Steward
- Inland Temperate Rainforest
- Natural Resource
- GDP
- Credit Score
- Social Services
- Invasive Species
- Mitigation Efforts
- Wildlife Management
- Time Immemorial
- River Basin
- Failsafe
- Super Fires
- Carbon Sinks
- Carrying Capacity
- Ecosystem Management
This story in the media
More economists are getting deeply worried about Canada’s future – and investors are taking notice
Bias: Centre/Right
Source: The Globe and Mail
File Type: Essay
Overview: More economists are getting deeply...
The delicate act of creating a national park in polarized times
The delicate act of creating a national park in...
Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action
Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for...
Referenced Resources
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Trans Mountain Pipeline Benefits
- The Era of Innovation: Environmental stewardship in Canada’s forestry sector
- Canada sets a world standard for sustainable mining
- Suncor Energy Foundation
- Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame - Hal Kvisle
- Alberta Business Hall of Fame - Hal Kvisle
- Key Facts on Canada's Resources
- Canada keeps its AAA rating from DBRS
- Why credit ratings matter and why they can’t be ignored
- COVID-19: Historic deficit for the Canadian general government
- How Much Debt Does Canada Have?
- Do deficits matter? Here’s what they are, and what they mean for your bottom line
- COVID-19 & Government Debt: Should We Be Worried?
- Canada's National Debt - Debt Clock
- Donate to the British Trust for Ornithology
- The National Trust - Donate
- Top environmental charities in Canada
- Charitable donations in Canada continue to decline
- To be charitable, Canadians are not very generous
- Charity resources strained by rise in demand amid continuing drop in Canadians giving: report
- Hunting & Fishing License Sales and the Wildlife & Sport Restoration Trust Funds
- Decline in Hunting Threatens Conservation Funding
- The Economic Footprint of Angling, Hunting, Trapping and Sport Shooting in Canada
- Canada's population clock (real-time model)
- Four-in-five Canadians support complete ban on civilian possession of assault style weapons
- 6 Ways That Canadian Anglers and Hunters Are Helping Wildlife Populations
- Why Hunting Isn’t Conservation, and Why It Matters
- Why the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is Problematic for Modern Wildlife Management
- Does Canada’s oil and natural gas industry pay its fair share?
- Species at risk: the act, the accord and the funding programs
- Roadmap to a Canadian Just Transition Act
- Some oil and gas workers worry about a 'just transition.' Others think it won't come in their working lives
- Parks should be protected – not logged
- Jimmy Pattison Shares 7 Life Lessons
- He’s 91 and worth billions. Now Jimmy Pattison is hunting deals
- How Canadian billionaire Jim Pattison came around to believe in climate change
- Billionaire Pattison sees environment as 'number one issue' for his business empire
- Electric cars and fewer fish: Pattison’s empire faces up to climate change
- The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Business Crisis
- 7 industries at greatest risk from climate change
- Bridge Between Nations: A history of First Nations in the Fraser River Basin
- Fraser River Industrial Association
- Valuing Rivers - WWF
- Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves — this is how to protect it
- 'It has been horrible': B.C. salmon fishing industry ask feds to provide disaster relief
- Commercial Pacific salmon closures
- Ottawa to close 60 per cent of commercial salmon fisheries in B.C., Yukon to conserve stocks
- ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada
- B.C. isn’t ready for its next disaster – a major Fraser River or coastal flood
- 6 months after historic floods, some British Columbians still don't have a home
- Flood Extent in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, November 2021
- Cost of B.C. flooding last year leaps to $675M
- Cost of rebuilding B.C. after flooding nears $9-billion
- Devastating extent of BC flooding can be seen from space
- Flood disaster takes bite out of B.C. economy, sends infrastructure wake-up call
- Pacific storm adds supply chain woes, idling some Canada freight
- B.C. flooding shuts down highways and rail lines, damaging fragile supply chains
- What Do Canadians Think of Canada’s Forest Products Sector?
- Graph of the Day: Total Land Area Affected by Mountain Pine Beetle in BC, 1981-2005
- Mountain Pine Beetle: Salmon are suffering too
- Woodpecker nest survival, density, and a pine beetle outbreak
- Is the Mountain Beetle Eating up the Lumber Industry?
- Pine beetle leads to future timber harvesting reduction in 100 Mile House region
- Trouble in timberland: How pine beetles and fires are gutting B.C.'s forestry sector
- The economic impact of the mountain pine beetle infestation in British Columbia: provincial estimates from a CGE analysis
- Pine beetle forest devastation has far reaching impacts
- Satellite mapping finds correlation between B.C. wildfires and floods
- Pine Beetle Outbreaks
- Predicting the risk of mountain pine beetle spread to eastern pine forests: Considering uncertainty in uncertain times
- Benefits transfer: The economic value of world’s wetlands
- Report: $70 Billion in Freshwater Resources at Risk Annually