Every day while I’m walking my dog up the road to the clear cut, I tend to talk to myself a lot. I feel like I’m the only one worried about climate change. Locally it was really dry this year, but across the country too. We’ve cut down a lot of trees in the region, and one more wonderful thing about trees is that they have a way of attracting moisture like a magnet. I wonder, if we continue to deforest for various reasons, if we might not end up like out west in the midst of a 10-year drought.
Our new government, our new corporate government, doesn’t plan on helping refurbish our country environmentally. As for following through with the plan of planting two billion trees, it isn’t going to happen. Rather than helping the planet, our new government is too busy helping themselves to any resource the land has to offer, but some of these resources are not renewable, once they’re gone, they’re gone for good.
Our new government wants to play with the big boys of the world, and become a superpower, and if they have to destroy the country environmentally to do it, they will, and they won’t lose any sleep over it.
We live in a paradise here in Vankleek Hill, truly a bubble of calm and tranquility, but if you get a chance, take the time to be kind to a tree, reach out, grab a branch and give it a gentle squeeze, and I promise you it will be appreciated. For a moment in time the tree will feel kindness for the first and last time of its life.
We’re not in Gaza, we’re not in Ukraine, we’re not in Haiti, or Sudan, or Ethiopia, or Afghanistan.
I try to take the time, whenever I can, to take inventory of all I have, of all we have, and I can’t help but to feel grateful in a really big way.
Try to enjoy my letter, my smile and my hug, for we have so much when many have so little.
Truly see all trees please,
Andy Perreault
