Why does it always seem that Wasaga Beach is languishing? (not that that's true)
The one thing we keep doing over and over is to look what other communities "have" done. Then we try to emulate that!
This is not forward thinking and leads us into a "Game of Ketchup".
Growth has been phenomenal in Wasaga, but most of that has been controlled by what is know as "cheque book planning".
Wasaga Beach started out on the cutting edge over a hundred years ago, by moving from a resource based economy (lumber) to the infancy recreational tourism industry.
We need to get back on that cutting edge. If we are going to reinvent ourselves yet again, let's look to the newest ideas just moving out of their infancy.
This idea ;
Degrowth: the Radical (Re)Action Needed to Avoid Total Economic and Environmental Collapse
- 07:00 - 20 December, 2018
- by Rory Stott
- is one of those ideas.
"the concept of “degrowth,” a growing movement to overturn our economic assumptions and establish a managed contraction of our economies and resource consumption, with the eventual goal that society will become calmer, less focused on productivity, and more focused on quality of life. And, as they see it, the architects of this retooled society could be—well, architects."
The interview is a 10 minute read, but well worth it. You may gain some tools to help pollish your own ideas.
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