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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1971-10-28, Page 10WE ARE BUYING We now have a FAST NEW elevator and intake. We have the quickest and most modern un- loading facilities available for our Bean and Corn Growers. — ALSO STORAGE - For Courtesy & Service Comet to W. G. Thompson & Sons Limited MITCHELL FA Miles West of Mitchell on Highway 8 PHONE 348-8433 FARMERS! Now Is the Time to put in that Concrete Barnyard with High Quality CONCRETE Free Estimates Sidewalks, Walls, Bridges, Etc. Be sure of what you are getting by USING READY-MIXED CONCRETE from. HURON. CONCRETE SUPPLY Ltd. Goderich — 524-7361' Seaforth — 527-1206 16THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEAFORTH OCT. 28, 1971 TOWERS, ANTENNAS, ROTORS & BOOSTERS INSTALLED and REPAIRED HAROLD ELLIOTT HENSALL PHONE 262-5372 Chicken pieces or chicken halves are tender, mild flavored and versatile, cooked over the coals ' of a barbecue. Tender young fryers or broilers weigh- ing 2 1/4 to 3 pounds, _quartered, or halved, are best suited for to start immediately Seaforth Machine Shop PHONE: 527-1300 — Seaforth WELDER REQUIRED SELL r Through Huron Expositor Classified Want Ads of city traffic night and morning, of the ever-diminishing sanc- tuary of the wild. For every one who revels in the challenges of hard-nosed competition there a:re a dozen who secretly find it all increasingly terrifying.. They are *worried about their teenagers and they wonder hoW- to help them find secnrity in themselves and beyond , them- selves. They suspect they are dying slowly from polluted air and from chlorinated hydrocar- bons in their food - and if they are not, no one will unequivoc- • An address by R. D. Martin, Resources Manager of the Ausable River Conservation Authority. 44/hat is your impression of conservation? Is it similar to the father's inthe first paragraph of a new book put out' by the Ausable Authority and written by Andrew Dixon? "Dad, what's conservation?" ',Just talk, son." "N6, Pad, I said conservation, not conversation." "Same thing, son." or is yours a different. Impression? Conservation started as a homespun thing, related to the obvious. The era of the wilder- ness was passing, but the wasteful methods of those who came to this country for a living remained. Too soon there weed '"- problems. Light soils, no longer held water - they blew sway. Wells went dry. Farms were abandoned. Floods appeared every other spring. 'For the first forty years of this Century conservation in Ontario meant forest con- servation and this, in the minds of most people, meant tree plant- ing and protecting forests from fire. During the Second Wor1.1 War, the thinking with regard to con servation broadened to include not only forests but also all the renewable ,natural resources in- cluding water, soil, wildlife, and subsequently recreation. Management problems finally got through to us and we agreed re- luctantly to a conservation need. The Conservation Authorities Act ,'vas passed in1946, and since then thirty-seven authorities have been established. Although the - former Etobicoke. Creek Authority (now part of the MTRCA) might dispute it, the, Ausable is proud to be known as the first Conservation Authority in Ontario.- Only recently, however, have 'we become anxious about air and water pollution -and the environ- ment as a whole. Life grew more complicated. There was More pressure and competition. 'There was more sophistication. The frontier shifted to exciting things like communicat- ions, data processing and auto- mation, chemical research, mar- keting, consumer reports, effic- ient management. -This brought us prosperity plus: shorter work- ing hours, more education, More money, increasing urbanization. ,The arts began to flower. Hobbles became a big industry. But for many the big problem was how to spend the time and re- sources satisfyingly. There was a rush to the out-of-doors. It is ingrained In our history and -implicit in the Wonderful land with its lakes, forests, fish and game. It is aided' by our in- creased mobility and by 'our cleverness in making the wilder- ness comfortable. Yet problems remained. Re- creation lands assumed scarcity and investment value. As cities grew, much of this land was snapped tip by private indiViduals. Public lands were in danger of A New Kind - - Conservation For Living grill. cooking. 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The replenishing the supermarket first two "waves", preservation shelves. and regulation, were resource Increased use of the land went centred. hand in glove with an increased The ideological shift to build- ignorance of even its simplest ing conservation on man vis- ..aspects. Even the hunter, who in a-vis his environment, forces a earlier times had been taught by radical reassessment of certain his father to love the woods, be- values from another era. Two of came part of a vast industry de- these precepts were•that'ileisure voted to the sales of ammunition is bad" and that "all development and equipment, the production of is good". The stigma attached to targets, the pursuit of an elusive enjoying oneself is perhaps all • and retreating manliness, and but gone. However, its legacy is e Grind following of fashion: apparent in the slowness with Everyone has to have a cot- which means are provided to inte- tage or a farm. This was a re- grate fulfilling leisure-time ex- treat in earlier times, a return periences into our daily, 'and to-te simplicity and quietness increasingly urbanized, routine. and eauty of the land. But with The precept that development is the mounting need for all these always good is all too seldom the things, cottage living has become subject of criticism. As a more and more a taking of the culture, we tend to measure city to the lake; flower beds and success in terms of gross lawns like Don Mills; broadloom national product, numbers of and tiled bathrooms; draglined automobiles produced, miles of shores and concrete retaining highways completed, walls; a social round that rivals numbers of new industries and r that of suburbia; pollution of the homes built. Given the ecological once clear lakes and rivers. ethic, the advantages of develop- Contact with the landscape is ment must be weighed against largely through,a motor of some such variables as the number of kind.:_arroutbeard, a car, a snow- new junkyards, the acres of open mobile or a swamp buggy, a space lost, new levels of air and lawnmower or chain saw, a ski water pollution, or the crowded tow. 'regimentation of urban and These things are not wrong. suburban existence. According to. They are what people seem to Mr. Udall, "the new value system want. Yet they are changing our sets greatness above growth, puts countryside. And we need to quality ahead of quantity - and consider the conservationist's • demands that corporate partS of reaction to this fact. The rush Am peruibclaied,ocothrep,osraamtee.'' to the cottage is bringing newer, and private wider, more aseptic highways in sectors have one of three choices. place of the intimate beauty They must either voluntarily many nostalgically dream about. accept responsibility to posterity We are promised subdivision and act in the best,' long-range buildings several layers deep public interest; they-must accept around many of our precious coercion leading to the same end; lakes, high-rise apartments and or they must tolerate an environ- artificial lagoons. The trend, ment that will inevitably decline apparently, is inevitable; for this, An quality, the moral responsib- people are willing and anxious to ility for which they will not be pay larger and larger sums of here to accept. money. &further implication of New methods of transportation -'heli- we cannot foresee an end. New Cwoornlsdervfoartimonains etlicaotsymsatneman. dmhains copter buses, air-cushion boats has for many years been the un- among. them' can take us to : challenged manipulator of that remote places with ease. No system. Only recently has he place can bethought really safe. been forced to acknoWledge that Does it matter? Our educat- his role' should not be one of ional system has not concerned master, but rather of co-operat- itself much with the quality of - ing partner. life, concentrating on ,economic The system's approach to any standards of living. And perhaps problem rests on the promise we don't care, that all components are inter- Yet there are signs. Canoe.- dependant. Any action therefore, ing, sailing, hiking are growing in which . alters the equilibrium of popularity, now that indus- / the system must in some way be trialization has overtaken compensated for if balance is to ,camping. Wilderness trails are be restored. When one applies packed. Winter camping is catch- this principle to the complex ing on. The old concept of the implications kt! environmental naturalist as a spinisterish mai- con servation, one sees that cur- den lady is shockingly out of date. rent forces producing disequil- we are. finding the embryo bird- ibrium are staggering. Natural watcher' in most of us. The best equilibrating forces are totally hunters are finding their deepest incapable of coping with alter- satisfaction in juSt being a part of ations in the landscape wrought the landscape. Expensive cam- with the speed and finality eras and telephoto lenses are characteristic of the technocracy in which we live. One example popular: There is a need, and the be- would be - the severe lowering of ginning of a demand, for some the natural water table in many new approach to recreation in parts, of North America. With our land; for increased under- this in mirid, it is apparent that standing; for an enriched use of the' era is passed when we can the land's potential. afford the luxury of blundering Simple assumptions - that a from crisis -to expedient decis- tree is a tree; that the only ion to crisis. We milst abandon animal worth considering is a the comparative east of corn- deer; that fishing and swimming partmentalization, and adopt the are the basic uses of waters -' systems approach inherent in the these ,are a pioneer- stage of New Conservation. No longer , conservation for better living. is .it• possible to accept tradit- But what we really need is tonally-isolated conservation the opportunity for all sorts of categories such as forest, wild- people to learn a new ethic of the life, water or land use. Neither outdoors, an ethic based on an is it-possible to ignore any por- understanding of what the tion of the landscape by-Saying countryside is all about, and an "that is not our problem." The appreciation of the slow, careful city, the suburb, the rural land- shaping and intricate, relation- scape and the wilderness are ships of each element in it. The equally signifiCant in balancing hew ethic is an ethic of respect; the total environment, and even- it will not willingly destroy any Wally, the quality in one sector part of this wonderful mechan- will influence the qInualtimtystheroonutgehx-t, ism, although it knows that the out. mechanism is in some ways self-, If , modifications' education assumes an extremely must be made, it tries to find significant role in the implemen- the least damaging way, and de- tation of New Conservation. De- terMines to save what it can. c1sion-makers armed with tools of technology have been prim-Is this an ethic for the finan- responsible for the cier, the real estate 'man, the daergilrYadation of our environment; working man with his new af- isolated or uninformed decisions fluence? Can it get through the have led us to the dangerously fog of small talk, and callousness that wafts into any occasion when wounded environment of to- men of affairs get together? day. Our only hope for environ- mental restoration and balance It can and it =St. F'cir these men too are aware of the strains lies in enlightened decision-mak- creases. Sometimes the sinks run over., and we cannot ignore the mess. Because of this, we've become very conscious about "sinks" and what's happening to our ',wastes" that cause pollution of our air, water, soil , anti aesthetic surroundings. This was se the "regulation wave" referred to earlier. The real threat to our continued comfortable exis- tence will probably be a high pile of garbage, not a diminished stack of resources. I would not be sur- prised if we run out of pollutable lakes and reservoirs before our mines and ores are exhausted. It is for this reason that the concept of the spaceship earth economy presents itself as an attractive alternative. The prin- cipal difference has to do with What happens to wastes. Instead of piling up wastes in "sinks", they are recycled and made into useful resources. This spaceship concept of our economy can -be extended to our whole planet. Earth is a finite -spaceship with a finite resource lease, speeding through space. At a certain level of technology it can only • sustain a certain population, and presently we are not sustaining what we have. Man is undoubtedly the principal pol- luter of this° globe - he is also becoming the principal pollutant. We are going to have to set down the standards of envi- ronmental quality that we are prepared to live with, and this must then serve as a guideline in determining the, earth's car- rying • capacity. Our environ- mental problems cannot be ad- equately dealt with unless we take a comprehensive view of them. This comprehensiveness of- approach was labelled "environ- mental Conservation" some- 15 years ago, but only now do we seem to bp really 'thinking about attempting it, now that the "New Wave of Conservation" is rolling in. But -the wave will never crest and break over us if we are not prepared to take a much longer view of things. One of the problems in taking this long-term environmental view is that' we carry on our+ daily activities in the short run. The longest planning period we use is 20 to 30 year's, and this ' is based almost entirely on the mortgage period used by,busin- ess. It is this business and profit mentality that straight- jackets our thinking . ' we are going to have to stop measuring progress by that God - the Gross National Product. As we are tied to this false measure of pro- gress ( false -because it mea-' sures quantity, not quality), so we are getting more and more people hooked on this drug which destroys not only mind and body, but the very habitat of man. If conservation is truly to become a daily habit ) it will re- quire a new relationship and basis for ethics - a relationship' of man to nature rather than man to man. Nature will have to be looked on as a part of life, and ,man must see himself as an extension of her, and relate to her on a community basis. And who is going to speak for the environment? On ,a personal' level I hope you are. By now you should be well-informed as to what the individual can do. If you don't know ' ' you should feel ashamed • at your ignor- ance and wake up and -find out. On the municipal and reg- ional level, the Conservation Authorities across the province are in an admirable position to speak for the environment. They are regional in nature, based on a watershed boundary. They in- volve a wide range of people - enthusiastic amateurs and pro- fessionals, while still maintain- ing well-defined responsibility to the municipality as a whole. They are close to local prob- lems and they have always dealt with all the aspects of the „environment, though not always With a comprehensive total en- vironment approach. But they are prepared to do this I hope. There is a''generation of stud- ents that received their education during the heady educational, revolution of" the 50's and 60's. What happened to them? They grew long-haired and 'became vocal. Universitteg suffered stu- dent strikes and riots - high schools had student protests over courses and freedom of assem- blies. Kids turned to drugs. Some of these things have not changed In today's generation. But this *as alio the generat- ion which forced the United States to reconsider its attitudes to- wards the blacks and the Viet Nam war. It challenged adults on the quality of life in North America. It howled so loudly about pollution .that politicians were forced to listen. Whatever their elders may think, this generation thinks for itself and searches for its own answers. What will yours do? What will be the contribution of your generation when it leaves school and enters the world of the G.N.P? Thb new wave of conservation, conservation for living, will not become a force unless some of us move to give young people the responsibility they now feel. It is to them I turn in closing, for we are all in their hands for better or for worse. Man is not lost. We could not be in better hands. Long litre the revolution! May they see clearly and act bravely. For the first time man has the chance to be fully successful, for we have a generation otyntith which grasps the meaning of human ecology and can spring the traps of history. Let us Clear the way for these pathfinders.' Warrant Officer William 'Costello recently receiveti First Clasp to his Canadian Forces Decoration from Lieutenant Colonel „R. A. Lyons. Warrant Officer Costello of Dublin, Ontario and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia joined the Armod Forces in December of 1948. During his career he has served on board MACS Ontario, Magnificent, Bonaventure and Bras D'or and is presently serving with 32 -Utility Squadron. Barbecued Chicken Can Be Versatile ing, w ith controlled use of techno- logical aids. Up until verY'recently we have tended to view our economy as a • type of huge grinder, fed from above by a hopper filled with natural resources. When the handle of the economy is cranked, out come finished products and' wastes. This is a throughput economy. The conservation movement in the past has been primarily concerned with the rope-puller on the natural resource hopper. The fear has been that some day • there would not be enough of some vital resource such as wood fibre, crude oil, fresh water, etc. This was the "preservation wave" we referred to earlier. New technology and changes in relative prices have worked to- gether in double harneSs and we're still able to get what we need when we pull the rope, at least in developed countries. Conservation in the past has been secondarily concerned with sinks filling up with the wastes. As population and wealth have grown, we turn the handle faster and crank thr ough more resour- ces. The output of /wastes in- • • .0 • • 4 V • • 0 • .."-I • •