To the editor,
Re: Nanaimo has a chance to become a ‘15-minute city,’ Opinion, April 10.
Fifteen-minute cities are plunging us back into the Dark Ages.
Are you all really ready to jump on a horse and buggy like our great, great ancestors did?
Gasoline is bad. Natural gas is apparently no good. Definitely say no to all those oil products, which all of us use whether you realize it or not.
Inventors and entrepreneurs worked their tails off through failures, pitfalls and downfalls to move mankind ahead to where we were a progressive society in the true sense of those words. Now we are speedily being pushed in reverse. Down an ideological sinkhole reverting us back to caveman times when we rubbed sticks together to start a fire.
This philosophical wishing well needs to end before we all end up wearing loincloths because rayon, silk or even cotton will somehow be frowned upon.
Matt Snelgrove, Nanaimo
OPINION: Nanaimo has a chance to become a ‘15-minute city’
To the editor,
Re: Nanaimo has a chance to become a ‘15-minute city,’ Opinion, April 10.
The op-ed about Nanaimo being able to become a 15-minute city is only half new. It was at least 20 years ago when I first heard someone say that Nanaimo had been ‘malled to death.’ Since then the rapid growth of apartment dwellings has been the second step in making a 15-minute lifestyle possible. Development of e-bikes may be a third. I checked the World Economic Forum’s website and found this headline: ‘The 15-minute city meets human needs but leaves desires wanting.”
We should take that as a warning to make the 15-minute lifestyle an option but not a mandate.
David Rempel, Nanaimo
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