It's amazing that the human species manages to do so much damage to Earth. After a road trip in Canada, it's worth pondering. Miles and miles and miles. So much of it uninhabited. And this is the part of Canada where we live. Think of the north. Thousands and thousands of miles with not one human being in sight. And if you were in an airplane, perhaps it would be even more awesome. Globing warming. Smog. Disappearance of species because of habitat loss. It goes on and on. "Can we fix it up in time?" Mmmmm.
Things look good outside my window. Right now. But we hear that they're 'upgrading' the county road. Taking down the last stand of trees that we've managed to keep upright for 30 years - ("Couldn't you just trim the top part of the trees that are running into the power lines?").
"The road is unsafe", they told us. "It has been unsafe for many years, and it's time to fix it." "It's such a little road" we say. "It doesn't look unsafe".
Yesterday we saw the little survey flags appearing. Can the graders be far behind?
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