2023-12-05 A Clean Environment
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A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT<br />
The environment around us is key to our existence. Our forests,<br />
rivers, lakes and soil provide us with the food we eat, the water<br />
we drink and the air we breathe. Our health and prosperity rely<br />
on the natural world and we must keep it healthy to survive. For<br />
Indigenous peoples, their relationship with the land is spiritual,<br />
whereas the Western worldview largely sees the land and its<br />
resources as commodities to develop and extract for the benefit<br />
of humans. In our region, there are reasons to be concerned about<br />
the environment, from a rise in Special Air Quality Statements to<br />
the state of our forests and wetlands.
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