Is Sustainable Development an Oxymoron?
First there was the Fraser Valley and it was all treed bush, marshlands and wetland. Then came man who carved out small areas from the bush to live and grow food for survival. But that didn’t matter because there were not many men and lots of bush. And the land was so good for growing food that other men came. And they brought their wives and had large families because they needed “manpower” to work the land to support the large families. And soon the offspring got bored so they wanted to visit other families in the area for “social contact” and to do things like trading and “begetting”. And so they built roads that were not very good, and there were obstacles like rivers and streams to cross. And so they invented “engineers” to conduct projects like building roads and bridges. But the people were not satisfied because they didn’t like the mess that was developing. So they invented “architects” who don’t like anything unless they have created it themselves. And this led to a hodgepodge
