As we speak’s letters: No less than younger folks notice how vital bushes are

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It was encouraging to learn on this letter to the editor that younger folks proceed to be involved concerning the atmosphere. Evidently 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 completed.

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Sadly it doesn’t seem that adults are getting the message as they proceed to kick the can down the highway and rationalize that the issue is anyone else’s.

Just lately, the Ottawa Worldwide Airport Authority razed 10 acres of purple pine forest off Hunt Membership Highway 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 anyone else fear concerning the atmosphere.

Sooner, and hopefully not later, we’re all going to need to 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 bushes hurts the atmosphere.” I’ve a sense that Isla and Janey present extra duty and maturity than a lot of our native municipal and provincial politicians.

I applaud them for mentioning the fragility of the environment. I agree with them that we must always have much less building and concrete enlargement.   We’d like extra nature reserves, equivalent 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 keep in mind the huge city growth that passed off 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 have been roaming many farm fields south of the town on the lookout for meals and consequently damaging many soybean crops.

If we proceed to assemble homes and destroy beneficial agricultural farmland, we’ll grow to be extra depending on imported meals — with all of the well being penalties that go along 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 woman lately.

The snow-clearing crew had simply dumped a big load of snow on the finish of her driveway. She was making an attempt to dig her method out. The gentleman was driving by in a Metropolis of Ottawa truck, and seen her downside. He parked his truck, cleared her driveway, then halted the truck visitors till she was safely on her method. Nicely completed.

Kathleen McConkey, Barrhaven

Get high-speed rail on monitor now

Re: To battle 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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