Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's collaboration with the Club of Rome in the 1970s influenced Canada's environmental policies towards degrowth and sustainability. The episode explores the alarming connections between the Liberal Party, global organizations like the World Economic Forum and the United Nations, and the push for societal transformations. It discusses the impacts on Canadian living standards and policies, highlighting the shift towards sustainable solutions and critiques of capitalist democracy.
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Trudeau's Transformative Environmental Vision
Pierre Trudeau’s government in the 1970s adopted a radical environmental agenda inspired by the Club of Rome.
This agenda included systems thinking, rejecting economic growth in favor of degrowth and well-being economy concepts.
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Inner Transformation For Control
The Club of Rome now seeks inner psychological and spiritual transformation to support its systemic changes.
This approach corresponds to ideological remolding akin to communist brainwashing.
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Club of Rome's Radical Agenda
The Club of Rome calls for "five extraordinary turnarounds" in socioeconomic organization to avoid global collapse.
This implies managed economy, redistribution, and erosion of national sovereignty under centralized control.
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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 143
Canada is in a lot of trouble, but few of us realize how far back the trouble really began. In 1968, Canada was swept with a madness affectionately called "Trudeaumania," and a new prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, was swept into office with an interest in making major transformational changes to the Canadian circumstance. Though his ambitions were greater than what the political environment in Canada in the 1970s and 1980s could tolerate, the elder Trudeau shifted policies and government institutions strongly into the radical model championed even today by some of the most concerning outfits on the planet, including the World Economic Forum (WEF), United Nations (UN), and the infamous neo-Malthusian "Club of Rome." In fact, in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay exposes that Pierre Trudeau worked closely with the Club of Rome (https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101/) before it officially launched and set Canada's environmental policy from its outset in line with their wicked ambitions. Join him to learn how deeply infected the Canadian Liberal Party is, and has been for fifty years, with bad Communistic ideas like "degrowth" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/08/degrowth-wests-leap-backwards/), "sustainable development" (https://newdiscourses.com/2021/10/sustainability-tyranny-21st-century/), "inclusion" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/the-fraud-of-diversity-and-inclusion/), "Net Zero" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/05/absolute-zero-and-the-western-holodomor/), and the "well-being economy" (https://newdiscourses.com/2023/11/degrowth-distributism-well-being-economy/).
References:
[1] EARTH4ALL: DEEP-DIVE PAPER 17 The system within: Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Earth4All_Deep_Dive_Jamie_Bristow.pdf
[2] Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjh-57-2-2021-0101
[3] Erich Jantsch's 1972 Evolutionary Ladder of Interdisciplinarity: https://newdiscourses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/2-Part-of-Jantschs-1972-evolutionary-ladder-of-interdisciplinarity-adapted-from-.png
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