Editor:
Why are so many new people who have recently purchased big treed lots, cutting all the trees down? If you do not like trees, why are you here? Aesthetics is not in your vocabulary?
It should be against the law to cut these beautiful examples of a Pacific rain forest on private properties. These bylaws exist in Vancouver. Needless chain sawing should stop. Any fool can kill a tree, but it takes a real person to try to grow one.
Embrace and enjoy what nature has offered us instead of trying to impose your will on the world.
Think of how many homes you have destroyed for the poor birds and other wildlife that try to live here along with too many people. If you cannot share this paradise maybe you should be banished to live somewhere, like the Saskatchewan plains where there are no trees.
There are countries in South America like Ecuador that recognize the Rights of Nature in their constitution and acknowledge that “nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles,” and Bolivia that has the Law of Rights of Mother Nature (Pachamama). How avant-garde! Can B.C. and Canada ever attain that same reverence for Mother Earth?
Ben Foster, Elphinstone
