Mother Earth Is Angry
Will she forgive us?
The sky is a golden haze over the water today, my eyes itch and tear while my throat burns from the smoke particles in the air. A constant reminder that although we are safe, at this moment, here on the coast, many are not.
My home province of British Columbia is on fire. This beautiful province hosts 10 mountain ranges and 95 hectarces (234 million acres) of prestine cedar, pine and hemlock forests. It is home to wild flora and fauna that abound; magnificent grizzlies, brown and black bears, cougars, lynx, deer, elk and moose, along with all the smaller animals, birds, reptiles and insects that flourish here.
Most of B.C. is a wild life sanctuary, the Northern Rain Forest, misty, mystical and majestic.
However, today there are 376 wild fire raging out of control across this natural oxygen producing factory. These fires that have jumped streams, rivers and even lakes on their quest for destruction. Thousands are evacuated, homes and businesses burned and thousands of creatures big and small have perished.
My heart breaks at this seemingly senseless sacrifice of life.
It brings me to wonder what it will take for humanity , of which I am part of, to recognize its impact on our planet? The impact evident in the increase in the number of fires…
