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From YouTube: NOV 2 2022 Statements Roly Russell
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
boundary
similkamine.
Thank
you,
speaker,
I
rise
today
to
speak
about
the
lessons
we
should
learn
from
microbes,
we
think
of
ourselves
as
independent
and
autonomous
players
in
this
world.
Indeed,
it's
a
fundamental
premise
of
much
of
our
current
economic
and
political
thought,
but
microbes
help
show
us
that's
wrong.
A
If
I
picked
a
cell
arbitrarily
for
many
one
of
us,
there's
a
better
chance
that
it's
not
human
than
it
is
us.
We
each
carry
orders
of
magnitude
more
genetic
material
from
non-us
than
we
do
for
us.
Twenty
thousand
genes
give
or
take
for
us
and
probably
2
to
20
million
for
non-us.
Our
microbiome
influences
our
nutrition,
our
defense
systems
and
our
cognition.
In
other
words,
it
defines
Who
We
Are
globally,
our
subscription
to
the
tenants
of
free
enterprise
Independence
autonomy.
A
Competition
have
resulted
not
only
in
damning
Social
and
environmental
costs,
but
also
in
remarkable
Financial
system
fragility.
The
costs
of
inaction
on
climate
change
are
an
easy
and
Salient
example.
Given
the
past
few
years
of
natural
disasters,
here
last
weekend,
I
had
the
privilege
to
sit
with
Scientists
Public
Service
policy,
wonks
and
Community
leaders,
both
from
the
U.S
and
Canada,
both
indigenous
and
not
at
the
soyuz
lake
water
science
Forum.
A
It
refreshed
for
me,
the
silk
Nation
water
declaration
and
specifically
the
notion
that
quote:
silk
people
assert
that
Silk
water
has
the
right
to
be
recognized
as
a
familial
entity.
A
relation
end
quote,
the
Primacy
of
relationship
is
enshrined
in
silk
natural
law
relationships
with
others
in
the
world
around
us
make
us
who
we
are
political
decision.
A
Making
that
doesn't
take
this
into
account,
produces
fragile
communities
economically
and
socially
co-developing
legislation
with
indigenous
peoples
or
mandating
GBA
Plus
for
environmental
assessments
are
examples
of
how
forward-thinking
government
can
change
the
nature
of
our
decisions
in
this
place
to
recognize
the
reality
of
our
interconnected
world
and
produce
social,
economic
and
environmental
outcomes
robust
and
beneficial
for
generations
to
come,
ruthless
Independence
is
not
our
nature.
Investing
in
the
relationships
that
support
us
all
is
and
makes
us
all
stronger
together.
Thank
you.