Decisions have long-term consequences
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Updated: October 28, 2009 1:13 AM
I am new to Salmon Arm, so new in fact that I did not know who Warren Bell is, and I have absolutely no history on this issue of development of the property in question.
But I just finished reading the article in Viewpoint written by Dr. Bell.
He makes several basic, almost “motherhood and apple pie” points at this juncture, environment, habitat, aboriginal lands, etc. Not new concerns anywhere really.
Just before this, I had been at the movie rental store where I saw on the rack, two new movies of the Inconvenient Truth ilk.
One dealt with the looming planetary water crisis, and was titled Blue Gold, the other called End of the Line addresses the state of the fishing industry planet wide, which may not exist by 2050 at present rates of consumption.
So my question is this.
When are those people who support development of this particular site, which is obviously a special natural place, going to wake up and realize that if we don’t significantly change the way we do things now, and make concerns such as outlined by Dr. Bell our top priorities, we are just digging our own grave, and more likely the graves of our children?
Salmon Arm is not on a different planet.
Bill Lytle-McGhee
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