Margaret Atwood

AS I SEE IT, the greenbelt effort, an antithesis to the 1970 Joni Mitchell song line, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” is connected to something we call sustainability. By sustainability, I mean – in the short term – the ability to keep on doing what we have been doing without having everything fall apart completely, and – in the long term – maintaining the viability of human beings as a mid-sized but unusual mammalian species.