The View From The Cheap Seats: From Rainforest to Ruin? Easter's Stark Choice

 

Yes, it is very likely that the area of Broadway and Granville in Vancouver, British Columbia, would have been a temperate old-growth rainforest in 1875. British Columbia was home to vast old-growth forests, some of the rarest ecosystems on the planet Science World. These forests, with trees growing up to 300 feet tall and living for over 2,000 years, covered much of the region before extensive logging began in the 1800s Backcountry  Lodges of B.C.. (LLM Gemini)

I was born the same year this picture was taken, 1951, in a hospital perhaps two miles from this intersection. Seventy-five years before this picture was taken, the area may well still have been an old growth temperate rainforest that had moved with the seasons for 10,000 years.  

For me, this is the true message of Easter. As the equinox approaches, arrives and passes, life moves from death, to rebirth to growth. We have broken that interconnected interdependent cycle and our Mother and all that she nurtures will continue to pay the price of our foolishness.

If we choose to live in wisdom and compassion, we can repent and return to living within our Mother's cycle, and she will heal and life will go on. But if we continue down the road we have so far chosen.....

Brian