HOW CAN PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND THIS?
Would you walk here? Swim here? Take your family here? Eat food from this ocean?
Picture our incredible BC coastline forever spoiled by the inevitable, eventual, accidental oil spill. Where would all of Canada, let alone the rest of the world come, to enjoy what is known to be one of the most beautiful and pristine places on the planet? Come to "vacation".
Oh wait, you are only vacationing here. Well, we live here! This is our home, our love, our stewardship. Canadians used to be proud of our stewardship of this country, of our forests, our waters, our purity, if you will.
At the VERY least, we should keep it out of our waters.
It just breaks my heart that people cannot understand where true progress lies. And don't give me that sad old argument "you drive a car don't you?" That is NOT the point here. Technology is already developed and growing in other arenas for transportation and for heat etc. We need to grow up and look to the future of this incredible planet we live on.
I know that the technology for solar, wind, geo thermal etc. energy is far from perfect, but it seems that ONLY dire necessity is going to be the mother of these inventions, because as humans, we always seem to wait just a bit too long into a disaster before acting. So much good could be done in development of new energy with the money that our government is spending to buy a dinosaur.
I also know I only understand in a small way about the oil industry, how many things it powers, and I realize how third world countries would damage the planet less with oil and natural gas than with coal, and even about how Trudeau is trying to give Canada a viable economical boost for the short term, but that doesn't make it the right thing to do.
We need to think harder and faster, and make better decisions for the future. -
Wendy White