"Our environment is our economy", a poem

Pacifica Tribune, Letters-to-the-Editor."Please explain" by Therese Dyer

 

Editor:  Last week Sue Digre wrote in a column "Our environment is our economy." She blames us for not marketing ourselves well enough to put money in our cash registers. Who's fault is that? She has been sitting on the Pacifica City Council for 12 years. Why hasn't she worked with the Chamber of Commerce about that?

So I decided to cast a few lines at the poetry contest on the pier as the fish weren't biting so I couldn't sell them at our local Farmers Market to bring in revenue.

God gave us
The salt air to breathe
The sound of clashing waves of blue
Beautiful sunrises and sunsets
Like the green hills that surround us
God gave us those for free
Yet man put a price on thee
He paid the price and so did we
Can someone explain to me
How the environment is our economy?

Posted by Kathy Meeh