Dear Editor:
Re: Keith Baldrey's View from the Ledge column Lost in All the Oil Rhetoric is Realism, Dec. 5. Keith Baldrey is correct; the oil industry will not be out of our lives in our lifetime, mainly due to the fact that our dependence on oil is accelerating the approach of that ultimate day. Most of us are aware of oil's supremacy in our daily lives but, increasingly, people are trying to wean themselves from it. This column exhorts the retrograde, defeatist rationale that one continually hears. It is exasperating to be subjected to this point of view considering all that we know about climate change and threats to our health. (The opinion column) provides an excuse to avoid the effort needed for positive change. Mr. Baldrey has made an impressive list of oil's worldly trespasses. Perhaps this can be a checklist with which to cross off our dependencies and to begin to rid ourselves of petroaddiction.
Robert Partridge
North Vancouver
