Canada is on fire. Why isn’t our politics?

Poster's Comment

I am appalled at the Leger poll in the story below. You say that “The folks at Leger wanted to know whether people thought “the unprecedented heatwave gripping western North America” was the result of climate change or natural causes?” So they offered what they thought was a binary choice: chose climate change or natural causes “such as ocean currents or the jet stream.”. The trouble is that both ocean currents and the jet stream are being profoundly affected by climate change. The research on this is clear and public. What we have here is a distressing example of the fact that most people have no developed capacity to “think in terms of systems” rather than in isolated fragments. While this is characteristic of peoples and cultures in our Modern Techno-industrial (MTI) world, the folks at Leger should know this well enough to guard against this kind of frightful error. So should have you, folks.

There is a story here for the NO: How widespread is the inability to routinely experience the world in terms of systems? How much is this inability putting our future at risk? What could we in Canada do about it if we had the wit to see this issue and act on it?