I could go on, but I’ve made my point – cumulative impacts are - TopicsExpress

I could go on, but I’ve made my point – cumulative impacts are not an abstract to me and mine. Haisla don’t talk about “eroded ecosystem function” or “valued components”, they talk about salmon and oolichan being gone. It’s about our food, the traditional foods that keep us healthy. Every single aboriginal community in this region can show its own examples of these losses, what we now call “cumulative impacts”. There are very real reasons why First Nation’s seem to oppose most development. It is not an abstract concept to us, it is our reality, and the damage it has caused has not just been to “ecosystems”, but to a people, and their language, culture and identity. I hate harping on this, I hate sounding like a victim, but this is the reality of First Nation’s in Canada, and our common heritage whether we like it or not.