It's all over but the crying, I suppose.


It's just another meme making the rounds of Facebook but I can't get this one out of my head. It's true. Even here in "tree hugger" country, British Columbia, our dwindling stock of majestic "old growth"  trees isn't safe. 

These trees weren't safe during the very conservative BC Liberal governments of Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark and we threw that bunch out, replaced the foul BCLibs with Horgan's NDP. Surely the Dippers would respond to a public calling for these dwindling giants to be preserved from the chain saws and lumber mills. No such luck.

These trees take centuries, some more than a millenium, to replace. The oldest tree in Canada, a yellow cedar on the Sunshine Coast estimated to be 1,835 years old, was felled in 1980. That tree was worth money, just as soon as it was no longer standing, no longer alive, destroyed.

How do we stop these thugs in our legislature? Voting NDP doesn't work.


Comments

  1. From the Times Colonist.

    https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-we-must-improve-how-b-c-forests-are-managed-1.24260578

    I believe that the Government Employees union hold a huge amount of stock in Mosaic/ Island Timberlands /Timber West., so good luck with holding their feet to the fire!
    Our attitude towards forestry is indicative of our attitude to all natural resources, fishing being the most extreme.
    A few years ago the mayor of Prince Rupert announced that; we first had fishing, now that is gone.
    We then had forestry, now that is gone.
    This is why we really need oil and gas development!!
    The bone head is possibly still around.

    Oil, gas and mining projects eventually run out or just become uneconomical.
    That truly renewable resources such as forestry and fishing, that improve our lot in this world
    are wasted is shear lunacy that goes way beyond just bad management.

    TB
    We can all tell when an industry is failing as it is slowly but surely given back to the first nations.

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    1. It is madness, TB, and I fear we'll pay dearly for our selfishness.

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    2. How in the world do those poor countries such as Switzerland manage to survive without fish timber or oil to bolster their economy? I'm sure their are other examples of resource deprived countries, but my knowledge of world geography is somewhat limited so I'll leave it to others to provide.

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  2. Unfortunately, Mound, the conventional wisdom still is that money makes the world go round.

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    1. And it has us tightly in its grip around our throats, Owen. Oh well, give nature a few millennia to sort it out and the place should be as good as new.

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  3. a line from my youthful reading
    "... and in the harvest of these whales absolutely nothing is wasted. Blood , bone, meat, blubber and oil all have their buyers. Nothing wasted of course unless you include the whale."

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    1. Before long we'll all be going at them again, Lungta.

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  4. Just like Keystone, jobs decimating what few old growth trees are left are temporary. Once those trees are gone more area will have to be logged to save jobs. We, the public , like Charlie Brown and the football, fall for it every time.

    Three local ( Northern Nova Scotia ) have closed in the past 15 years because there are no quality trees left. Everyone thought the forests were forever but they and the jobs were merely temporary.

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    1. Yet those in power, regardless of stripe, seem indifferent to the loss of these great trees. The right is in bed with the forestry that have held such enormous sway for generatgions. The left is in bed with the unions, their members and members' families. Those who defend them are derided as "tree huggers." When these trees are reduced to their worth in software products, we debase the history of the province and its future. Every tree, like that 1800 year old yellow cedar, will not be seen again for millennia.

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