This is in reflection on your mayoral candidate messages today.
Politics cannot be understood without the use of science, and I stick to science and the golden rule in science. There may always be another reason and also why people run for office.
In my research, the concern is the economy’s allocation mechanism of unlimited human ambitions versus limited resources that have alternative uses in our western democracies, and the fault in the behaviour in society that makes up the economy.
With the benefit of the doubt, I trust people run for office because they believe they can better the socio-economic and ecological conditions in society. Well, I have lost confidence in many politicians and regained faith in a few. I offer my dictum from way back: the behaviour in politics and government reflects the level of understanding and the moral and ethical value in society that make up the economy; with a precautionary approach – science is the only basis on which the government should act. To do otherwise is to succumb to the mob (January 6 and the trucker’s freedom convey) and forego the advice of the ancients who gave us our democratic underpinnings of 1787 [1867 in Canada].
The stock market is not the economy. Unfortunately, greed and politics are allowed to override science, usurping social and environmental realities – so here we are.
Kell Petersen, Osoyoos
