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Mother Earth is restoring herself

Author

Letter to the Editor

Volume

15

Issue

2

Year

1997

Page 7

To the people:

Tansi! I have to say something about how I feel about the flooding in the last three years.

If you look back to the first flood, you might see the things I see happen to the Earth. Mother Earth is dying more and more each year, and as we, the people, know water is the gift of life, that is why I think we have been getting the floods in the last three years.

They have got worse, because each year Mother Earth is being killed off more and more. I see Mother Earth trying to get back some of the life we, the people, on Earth have taken away by all of the things we use every day that hurts Mother Earth. So I see the flooding as Mother Earth trying to bring back some of the life we have taken from her. That is why the floods get worse each year.

So, Mother Earth tries to get the life back by bringing life-giving water. Without water, there is no life.

To conclude, I would like you the people of the Earth to think about what I am saying.

Marcel Martin

Winnipeg