Editor:
My comments are in response to letters in last week’s Outlook written by Karsten Heuer and Tim Murphy.
First of all, our input into the Land Use Planning process for the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan is crucial to ensure, as Karsten points out, that a connection is made between protection of our mountain headwaters and the flooding consequences of downstream communities.
Secondly, I agree with Tim Murphy that this phrase “100-year-flood event” is now meaningless. For some people, my comments will be meaningless, but, perhaps, for others like myself, who are into esoteric studies, they will find a glimmer of authenticity.
Planetary repercussions taking place now are shaking up Mother Earth, “producing more floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes. You could say that our Mother Earth is having a nervous breakdown on a cosmic scale, because the negative forces are so strong” (The New Planetary Reality, Imre Vallyon).
We, as a humanity, cause these disasters, through our violence, wars, lack of respect for the animal kingdom and the natural world causing tension on the inner levels. Nature releases these energies into the inner dimensions which have to come back to us. It is imperative that we have the policies, research and more funding in place towards flooding and fire protection management to deal effectively with more climate changes and extremes in weather patterns.
The Harper government has, for example, slashed funding for Canada’s Forest Service. Less funding for the science needed for much needed fire protection management is putting Canadian communities at more risk. It is not business as usual.
We need politicians with a new consciousness that realize our planet will cease to respond to us in an unkind way, “because we will be creative instead of destructive.” (The Divine Plan, Imre Vallyon, p. 193).
Eileen Patterson,
Banff
