Abstract
We have come to regard the world as conceived by science and built by technology; but the people of the Mackenzie Valley and the Western Arctic have a long-established renewable resource sector based on hunting, trapping and fishing, and some limited logging and sawmilling. After extensive hearings, the Mackenzie Pipeline Inquiry recommended the postponement of pipeline construction for ten years to enable the settlement of native land claims, the strengthening of native society and of the traditional hunting and trapping economy, the development of the fishing industry, of recreation and of conservation so that the pace of development should not overwhelm the existing economic base with disastrous long-range social impacts. This approach to the rational application of industry and technology provides one example of the issues to be faced in re-assessing the drive towards unrestrained expansion and consumption and forging a new social and economic philosophy.
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