To the Editor,
Re: What was point of your ‘rant’?, Letters, July 26.
Gary Seinen has written in to complain about a guest editorial in the AV News called ‘The future they’ll inherit.’
Now, I’m surprised that he’d object to competing viewpoints, considering that he has managed to have his boilerplate letter published in the local papers a dozen times. But perhaps Seinen is not confident in his own arguments.
He is suspicious and distrustful of scientists, who cost him money. And he doesn’t think much of the younger generation, who should get off his lawn. Seinen writes in praise of technology as if he was taking a novel approach, but really he’d like to return to a simpler time, before the effects of industrialization were as apparent as they are now.
One of Gary’s favourite writers assures him that the technological revolution has improved the condition of the earth. Don’t laugh, because Gary is an earnest person, and will send in his letter again.
It’s the 21st century now, following close to 300 years of industrial development and accelerating damage to the earth, sea and air.
Port Alberni is not ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ and most people have no problem noticing such things as the effects of a changing climate. But not Gary Seinen who is not a crank, just a wise oracle.
Colin Frazer,
Port Albern
