Editor:
Re: Petroleum panic a barge too far by Tom Fletcher (B.C. Views, Oct. 19).
Tom Fletcher, as a Caucasian, cisgender male and Canadian settler, you need to check your privilege.
At most your family has been in what is now called B.C. for less than 200 years.
In those 200 years your people have successfully collapsed almost every fish stock on this coast and clearcut old growth forests to the brink of annihilation.
For at least 13,500 years Indigenous people sustainably managed the natural resources of this coast.
How would we survive without fuel you ask? The same we have for thousands of years by using traditional ecological knowledge, community and human power. How would your people survive without fuel? They wouldn’t. You have lost all connection to the land and sea. Your culture knows nothing but greed.
Ayla Brown
Bella Bella