Preoccupied with ourselves and missing the bigger picture

By Letter to the Editor on July 15, 2019.

I see humankind’s dire environmental situation as somewhat analogous to a cafeteria lineup. It’s like a group of diversely societally represented people, all adamantly arguing over which identifiable traditionally marginalized person should be at the front and, conversely, at the back of the line; and, furthermore, to whom among them should go the last piece of quality pie – all the while the interstellar spaceship on which they’re all permanently confined, owned and operated by the fossil fuel industry, is burning and toxifying at locations not normally investigated.

As a species, we really can be so heavily preoccupied with our own individual and admittedly overwhelming little worlds, that we’ll miss the biggest of pictures.

Frank Sterle Jr.

White Rock, B.C.

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