Kennebunkport Post - Letter to the editor: taking water from future generation is immoral

Editor:

I grew up in Kennebunk and now attend Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. I study sustainability issues. My main focus is how to take ecological functions and apply them in to our culture in things like buildings, cars, agriculture, everything really.
As someone who devotes his life to sustainability, I feel very agitated when I hear about Nestle’s newly proposed water source.
From an environmental point of view, this is obviously a disaster! But buried deeper in the environmental implications of 250,000 gallons of water per day are the social implications. My children’s generation will be the worst affected by this proposal. Not only is it unfair, it is morally unacceptable.
Our duty as human beings is to provide a suitable environment for our children to be raised in! What kind of responsibility is this?
My children will be second to Nestle when it comes to the resource that they vitally need for survival. I urge people of the community to look beyond the idea of “activism” and into the future.
Sustainability means providing a safe future for generations to come; instead of buying a hybrid, the most “green” thing we can do is to protect our resources for future generations.

Ryan Wilson
Olympia, Washington

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