Island Voices:

Lisa Warden / .

JULY 7, 2019 06:00 AM

Read the comments coming out of a recent Capital Regional District directors’ meeting and you’d be left thinking we were living in an earlier century, when wild animals occupied the vast majority of the planet’s biomass, and we humans and our domesticated animals a tiny fraction.

But no, it’s here, Greater Victoria, in 2019. Are we to accept that marauding bears are hunting us, the deer population poses a pandemic, and grey squirrels and geese are eating us into a state of famine?

The fact is that we as a species have consumed the Earth’s resources and killed our way through whatever stands in our path to such an extent that wild animals are now the ones that constitute a tiny fraction of the Earth’s biomass, compared with the domesticated animals we raise and kill for food.

We and…