LETTER — Love the planet, ban cosmetic pesticides
Bees like different colours. (B.C. Govt photo)
LETTER — Please ban cosmetic pesticides for lawns. It’s one tiny step toward being kinder to the planet.
We celebrate the biodiversity of Trophy Meadow or the Sun Peaks alpine yet the petrochemical industry has us believing lawns should be one color, one species. That’s not biologically natural. The bees love that my lawn has flowers all summer, thanks to my two varieties of clover, thyme, rosemary and dandelions.
Yes, some businesses will have to adapt to change, as businesses have for centuries. Somebody, somewhere, will innovate an environment-friendly means of controlling “weeds” and new businesses will spring up. Yes, some homeowners will make improper applications of chemicals. My guess, though, is that most will adjust to our new perception of what’s healthy, just as we adjusted to seatbelts and quitting smoking.
Let’s celebrate the biodiversity and health which comes with fewer chemicals in our environment.
TOM RANKIN
Kamloops
ArmchairMayor.ca 
Innovation will inevitably lead to other presently unforeseen problems…that’s the nature of human intervention. Unless we realize celebrating biodiversity means getting our hands dirty and accepting it unconditionally.
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