This Week on GR

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by C. L. Cook
This week: Earlier this month, the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre, in concert with the Global Footprint Network released a new economic and environmental index. The Eco2 Index is designed to gauge the threat of climate change on ecological and economic security. Rated were the most and least healthy national economies based on this new model's values.

Rashid Sumaila is the director of the UBC Fisheries Centre and he joins us in the first half.

And; is a sustainable world possible under the capitalist economic system; and if not, how else can we organize our societies? For a growing number, cooperatives are the viable alternative.

Listen. Hear.

Joan Russow is former leader of the Green Party of Canada. Since stepping down from the Greens, Joan has worked as a reporter and film maker, recording the climate change conferences in Copenhagen and Cancun, and more recently working on the film, 'Cooperatives: Counterpoint to Capitalism.'

She'll be traveling down to Venezuela later this month to chronicle the groundbreaking progress cooperatives have made there since the Bolivarian Revolution.

Joan Russow, looking south to the future in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us from the road somewhere in Manitoba at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from our city's streets and beyond.

Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, 104.3 cable, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://GorillaRadioBlog.blogspot.com

As we approach the annual commemoration for our planet home, Earth Day, perhaps it's time we ask ourselves how much we really value our lonely blue orb in space. Time and again, we've seen economics trump environmental conservation; and it's not even sound economics, but more often than not the short-term financial bonanzas for the few favoured over the life-force sustaining the natural world.

This trick is won by corporate interests and their captured legislators in a variety of ways; the arcane language of professional economists, like the current prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, being primary among them. Using the accounting deception called "externalities," economists disappear both the damages done to and the intrinsic value of our shared environment. But who balances the books for the natural world?

Earlier this month, the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre, in concert with the Global Footprint Network released a new economic and environmental index. The Eco2 Index is designed to gauge the threat of climate change on ecological and economic security. Rated were the most and least healthy national economies based on this new model's values.

Rashid Sumaila is the director of the UBC Fisheries Centre and he joins us in the first half.

And; is a sustainable world possible under the capitalist economic system; and if not, how else can we organize our societies? For a growing number, cooperatives are the viable alternative. Joan Russow is former leader of the Green Party of Canada. Since stepping down from the Greens, Joan has worked as a reporter and film maker, recording the climate change conferences in Copenhagen and Cancun, and more recently working on the film, 'Cooperatives: Counterpoint to Capitalism.' Joan will be traveling down to Venezuela later this month to chronicle the groundbreaking progress cooperatives have made there since the Bolivarian Revolution.

Joan Russow, looking south to the future in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us from the road somewhere in Manitoba at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz from our city's streets and beyond. But first, Valuing the Oceans with Rashid Sumaila


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