Commentary The mantra to build a “green economy” is actually code to kill the oil and natural gas industry and replace it with solar and wind power, battery-powered cars, and the like. Others have revealed the naivety of this canard and the true unfeasibility and cost of it, and it is not my purpose here to rehash their findings. I do, however, have things to add. While living in rural Manitoba for 10 years, I found it desirable to add farm labour and trapping to my writing jobs to make a living. Life on the land teaches how ecosystems work, and why they sometimes don’t. Across Canada are hundreds of men, and many women, who trap fur seasonally and humanely, given modern tools. It’s a traditional skill that harvests nature’s surplus, and it demands great care in pelt preparation (to enhance prices) and guardianship of animal populations (to sustain the …