Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 30 Sep 1977, p. 25

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Sanity OTTAWA CP Moving to conserver from consumer society does not mean sacrifice and nogrowth but sanity and selective growth officials of the Science Council of Canada say Ursula Franklin chairman of council study on conserver society said at news confer ence the public has to learn that conserving societys resources isnt sacrifice but an act of sanity Ran lde member of the study said switch to con server society will mean pol icies of selective growth not nogrowth as many fear They spoke at news confer ence on council report on twryear study of the implica tions of conserver society Ide said that other countries are seriously studying more ra tional uses of resources and energy and if we neglect for ces now at work in the world our competitive economic positionwillbelost Moving to conservation tech niques will make Canadian in dustry competitive in inter national markets he said Many ideas in the report are not new but are presented as the kind of coordinated steps and measures needed to move away from current economic and social habits which the council says do not recognize the limits to the worlds re sources the fragility of the en vironment and the demands that can be made of people The report says that con server society does not have to entail big drop in the standard of living It lays down wide ranging recommendations af fecting many parts of society The report says that without planned change dwindling oil reserves and natural resources could push Canada into re strictive societv of shortages Change in lifestyles OTTAWA CP Canadian work practices and lifestyles have to change to make better use of natural resources and to protect the environment but that does not mean that govern ment bureaucracies have to grow Joesf Katee chairman of the Science Council of Canada says conserver society can lean as much on individual initiative as does the consumer society Kates told news con ference for the unveiling of council report on actions needed to move Canada into conserver practices would deplore any im plication that what is proposed is an increase in Canadian bureaucracies he said We have enough of that already Increasingly costly and dwin dling natural resources plus serious concern about the en vironment should tell the public and overnments that the wast ul ways of consumer society should be changed the report says Ran Ide one of the reports authors said heavy price tag could be attached to undue de lay in changing economic habits However he said he feared Canada will be slow in changing while the rest of the world becomes more sophisticated about the inter relationshi of resources energy and ffuman needs If we neglect forces now in action in the world our competitive position will worsen Ursula Franklin chairman of pared the report said adopting conservationist lifestyle isnt sacrifice but an act of sanity Switching to conserver society would help break the twin economic nightmares of unemployment and inflation which are gripping Western countries she said the council committee that pre Bums amw anwipmuauami More seats for charters OTTAWA CP Air Canada plans to triple seats available under its lowcost charterclass fare program for travel within Canada in the peak summer season next year John McGill the airlines marketing vice president says McGill said at Canadian transport commission hearin the publiclyowned airline wi provide 390411 seats for char terclass gers between June 15a Sgt 15 next year He indicat there will be no change in charterclass seats available at other times of the year He said he expects Air Canada will carry about 210000 charterclass passengers for the entire year this year close to original estimates McGill said about 110000 seats were made available for charterclass passengers by Air Canada in the JuneSeptember the examiner Fuely 891 30 1077 1A peak period this year The pro gram was sold out The commission is hearing comments on whether new cheap domestic air charter pro gram should be 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