Ever since humanity’s exordium into nature’s prodigious framework, we have done nothing but attempt to mutilate it: clear-cutting inhabited forests, building cities, creating pollution and causing oceanic oil spills.
Now we have so selfishly come to a point where if a deer walks through our backyard, we devise a plan to impede their reproduction.
The only reason deer are in our municipality is because we sabotaged their home to build ours. Deer do not understand the difference between a natural food source and a commercial crop; they are trying to survive within a dysfunctional environment.
Please let nature be nature — it’s never done any wrong unto us other than let us exist with it.
Tyler Parker
Oak Bay