I don't say the island is becoming a wasteland for nothing. The devestation due to logging is fukin mind-boggling! I hear ya Holmes ....what's going on up there is just sickening as it has been everywhere else on the island. There are blocks of 2nd growth you can't even walk through, it's unreal. I'm gonna stop there and move on. We won't have to worry about access if there's nothing left. There is a much bigger problem....it's the government selling out to corporations. Fish farms, logging companies, neither provide many jobs especially logging, it's just criminal and I mean criminal. RAW LOGS!!!! NEED I SAY MORE!!
This is how 3rd world countries stay poor....... Large corporations come in backed by government, rape the land, take out the resources, process the raw materials in another country, pollute and destroy what's left then turn around and sell the products back to the poor people of the country the raw materials came from. Can the people afford the products - of coarse not. An endless cycle of poverty. Welcome Canada to the cycle.....I"m struggling how to put this in a better way but I think everyone here gets the picture. FFS I've been saying all along (not on this forum until now) "are we a 3rd world country?" At this rate we're going to be less that a 1st world country, that's for damn sure. How the hell the public land got sold so it could be destroyed still confounds me. Even worse, it still goes on. The way this island has been logged and continues to be logged especially up by Holmes and Clayoquot and in-between is............................only expletives come to mind! Only a real uprising will stop this! Not groups here and there but the masses, the people, from every group, but they need to care. Not only about being second class and having no money but they need to care about the environment as well.....it's coming, but not fast enough.
The Occupy movement is a start. I wish this movement started earlier, with winter setting in, it will die. It needs to be reborn in a more cohesive and organized manner. Big banks run by a few wealthy people and big corporations control everything, everywhere. People think they can make a difference by electing certain politicians or parties, it doesn't matter who gets elected. The system needs to change. We think we're in a democracy where the people can make change happen by exercising their right to vote. I beg to differ.
Our issues really do tie in with so many others. Just like the family farms going down the tubes, it's all connected by big banks, big money and big corporations. We stand to lose everything, that's for real, it's already happening
Edit: I was having a bad day, frustrated, sometimes I have way to much to say, gotta learn to reel myself in,......the personal part of the rant is gone...