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It was encouraging to learn on this letter to the editor that younger folks proceed to be involved in regards to the setting. Plainly if the planet goes to be saved, it is going to be as much as the likes of nine-year-old Isla McClelland and seven-year-old Janey Muggleton to get the job executed.
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Sadly it doesn’t seem that adults are getting the message as they proceed to kick the can down the street and rationalize that the issue is any person else’s.
Just lately, the Ottawa Worldwide Airport Authority razed 10 acres of crimson pine forest off Hunt Membership Street for the aim of producing income. The truth that the forest supplied a carbon sink for the tons of CO2 dumped by plane arriving and departing was not the OIAA’s downside. Let any person else fear in regards to the setting.
Sooner, and hopefully not later, we’re all going to should make sacrifices if we’re going to save the planet.
Don Paice, Ottawa
We should respect our surroundings
As a retired environmental biologist, I completely agree with Isla McClelland (9) and Janey Muggleton (7) that “slicing down timber hurts the setting.” I’ve a sense that Isla and Janey present extra duty and maturity than lots of our native municipal and provincial politicians.
I applaud them for mentioning the fragility of our surroundings. I agree with them that we should always have much less building and concrete growth. We’d like extra nature reserves, corresponding to “Nature 2000,” established by the European Union in 2000.
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Since I’m fairly a bit older than these two letter-writers, I nonetheless bear in mind the huge city growth that occurred again in early 2000 when the Metropolis of Ottawa expanded into Orléans, destroying many pure habitats for deer, rabbits and foxes. These poor dislocated animals had been roaming many farm fields south of the town in search of meals and consequently damaging many soybean crops.
If we proceed to assemble homes and destroy precious agricultural farmland, we’ll change into extra depending on imported meals — with all of the well being penalties that go together with it.
Thanks to those two writers for addressing this topic.
William J. Langenberg, M.Sc. Env. Biol., Merrickville
Metropolis employee deserves thanks
I want to commend a Metropolis of Ottawa worker who helped an older girl just lately.
The snow-clearing crew had simply dumped a major load of snow on the finish of her driveway. She was attempting to dig her manner out. The gentleman was driving by in a Metropolis of Ottawa truck, and observed her downside. He parked his truck, cleared her driveway, then halted the truck site visitors till she was safely on her manner. Nicely executed.
Kathleen McConkey, Barrhaven
Get high-speed rail on monitor now
Re: To combat local weather change, transfer folks from highways and planes to high-speed trains, Jan. 15.
I completely agree with this text by David Landry. Our younger folks want us to be proactive. They want us to take this step now into the long run, and to behave now to construct high-speed rail.
Susan Chapman, Stittsville
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