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Active Listening Has Its Limits ...<br />
By Kelly Musselwhite<br />
I do not consider myself a political person. I am a philosopher<br />
who focuses on the love and pursuit of wisdom through<br />
intellectual and methodological means. Holistic consideration<br />
is my fundamental goal for it was my generation who were<br />
raised in a be seen and not heard environment. That’s just the<br />
way things were but not necessarily how they ought to be.<br />
Several months ago the issue of the Eco Depot came up in local<br />
conversation. Interested, I made my way to one of the first rallies<br />
held at Ingram Street and so my education began. I had received<br />
and read the literature put out by the CVRD but something didn’t<br />
jive. What was the fuss about? Isn’t an Eco Depot a green idea? Isn’t<br />
that a good thing?<br />
They say power is knowledge but there are always several<br />
perspectives to consider. As such, I started attended the CVRD Board of<br />
Director’s Meetings in balance with information sessions administered<br />
by the resistors. I read the paper, kept track of the number of emotionally<br />
driven, yet intelligent articles appearing in our newspapers, and even<br />
wrote a couple myself. I was becoming political.<br />
What have I concluded? The proposed Eco Depot is not<br />
‘wrong’ conceptually, yet is completely unethical for a diversity of<br />
other reasons, many of which are reflected when critically analyzing<br />
the three websites currently available to the public: the CVRD’s<br />
ecodepotfacts.ca and those in opposition’s ecodepotfacts.com and<br />
saynotodump.ca.<br />
I fear that the public are not fully aware of this local debate<br />
and I invite you to investigate yourselves.<br />
As an autonomous adult, I am determined to be seen and<br />
heard, yet my understanding is that both require being met with eyes<br />
that see and ears that listen. Sorrowfully, it appears that the CVRD<br />
Director’s have neither when it comes to the Eco Depot.<br />
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