To the editor:
Have you ever wondered why we’ve designated our most precious resource to be gold?
I’ve been confused by this since I was a kid.
It’s a metal. A pretty metal, sure, but it does nothing for us. We can’t eat it or drink it. It can’t keep us warm or dry. It doesn’t sustain life, and yet we are so fixated on it that we eagerly give away the one thing we cannot live without in exchange for it: water. Water is the key component that allows all life on this planet. Nothing on earth can survive without it.
So, shouldn’t this be the resource we value above all others? Why do we take water so for granted?
We have clear examples of what happens to communities who lack clean water. A lack of clean water is always synonymous with poverty, disease, premature death.
In every case where there is mining, there is contaminated water. How long are we going to live in this backwards, self-destructive manner? This is our home, not Wolfden’s. Do you think they care about protecting our resources? They do not. They care about the money they will make off pillaging our land and contaminating our source of life.
It’s up to us not to let that happen. We need to choose life.
Ashley Bodin
Island Falls
