So right now, I am in Stanwood Washington with my best friend from high school, Holly Plourde. She came out from the East Coast to visit me and we decided to take a little trip up here while she was here so she could visit some relatives. Well, I was very excited to see the Decidious Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, as well as Seattle. What I have seen so far has been very disappointing...for the past four or five days, all I've been hearing is how this area was beautiful farmland or woods, but that was ten years ago and it is all strip malls now...
Or "What a shame, all these people are moving out here and spoiling this area," "all these people from Seattle..."
It started on the ride on the train out to the airport to get a rental car...Holly and I where talking about how the vibrations and energy of different areas affects people differently and how you need to find an area that matches your vibrations and how you should eat locally grown food that has the same vibrations of the minerals in the earth and some older ladies thought our conversation was interesting and jumped in. We where passing the giant Ikea building at the moment and I jokingly said "Want to furnish your house at Ikea Holly?" Holly laughed and said "Nope, I don't have a house..."
"That place is ugly anyway..." One of the old ladies said, "this land used to just be coyotes..."
"Where are the coyotes now?" I asked. "Poor coyotes....poor dogs..."
"Yeah I know..." One of the old ladies chimed in, "only twenty years ago, this was all wild..."
"And a coyote was found riding the MAX (the name of our light-rail train,) just the other day...sleeping on one of the seats.."
"Did you ladies hear about the coyote in the subway someplace in the midwest?"
"Yeah..."
"They tranquilized him and took him out somewhere...poor dogs don't know where to go anymore..."
After that converstation, this entire trip has been a reminder of how humans are just spreading and spreading, uncontrollably. The drive up to Seattle was not trees and wilderness the way I'd pictured, but lots of clearcut land and mall after mall after mall. Seems like all the way from Portland to Seattle, everything has been cleared out, without wilderness to speak of. Today Holly and I left the suburbian town her Aunt lives in to take a drive, hoping to see some woods. We found some woods, but not suprisingly, we also found big patches of woods being clearcut for new houses...people leaving Seattle for a "place in the country", people leaving California, looking for a home of their own. These people aren't to blame...we can't blame individuals who are each just pursuing the American dream, who just want to be homeowners, who are tried of paying for an overpriced apartment in a crowded city. I don't think there are any easy solutions, nor do I think this is going to stop. Babies are being born, thousands and thousands per day. On top of that, people are living longer and longer...because of these things, we have an unmaginable population. Because we have an unmaginable population, the woods will continue to be torn up to build houses.
Anyway, once again I feel it would be really adding injury to insult for me to have children.
Love ya,
Carrot
The sad truth of the matter is this is really and truely affecting everyone. An old playground turns into a fastfood joint, an old recreational park turns into a parking lot, and hiking trails turn into a highway. And the corporate devils try to trick us the citizens into believing that this is better and will leave well off, but the truth is the less nature in our lives, the less peace and serenity there is to go along with it.