The Editor,
Re: "Port expansion will inflate food crisis," City Scene, June 7.
Coun. Harold Steves is quite correct in pointing out that wafting coal dust clouds and loss of much-needed Delta and Richmond farmland in exchange for a larger Port - and even more so needed if the port is expanded thus increasing global warming - should be heavy on every mind that gives a damn about the people's and planet's health.
I'll bet that in Big Industry's universe, life-sustaining ecosystems are but once again supposed to take a back seat to extremely massive coal extractions and shipping, creating transport corridor nightmares around the Delta and Richmond region, just for one thing; and, unfortunately, these days such almighty-dollar-first is very far from being unique.
Do B.C.ers in favour of basically unhindered resource-extraction ever thoroughly consider what good creating jobs is when the planet is deathly polluted, with people getting sick and dying because of mass industrial and vehicular pollution?
All of which is why, when I see people all excited and partying it up following the re-election of an ultra-pro-big-industry governing party, I think of Midnight Oil's 1988 hit song,"Beds Are Burning": "How can we dance when the Earth is burning?/ How can we sleep when our beds are burning?"
Frank G. Sterle, Jr. White Rock
