Re: Gwynne Dyer’s “Globe Moves Into ‘Peak Everything’,” Shuswap Market News, Feb. 6.
Thank you for yet another opportunity to air out about the content in your columns of doom and dire predictions, along with the likelihood that we’re all done for. Not only do you type these messages out, but you say it out loud too, such as when you spoke at a forum at UVic in front of my daughter and hundreds of other high school students last year. Even if what you said was true, why did you feel the need to dim all those bright lights in the room by leaving them with a sense of futility for their future? Were you trying to galvanize or paralyze?
We haven’t even begun to reach our own ‘peak’ potential, Mr. Dyer, and many thousands of people of all ages worldwide, from every kind of background, culture and expertise, are and will be tackling these issues head on before those dreaded due dates.
The worst disaster we’d face on this earth would be the emotional ‘tipping point’ of despair, which would inevitably lead to social breakdown and chaos, along with an accelerated environmental free-for-all, leaving this planet of ours in an even worse mess than it is now.
Margo Westaway
