This letter is directed to the Star editorial board, that sanctimonious bunch of ultra-conservative wahoos who—in their perpetual haze of apathy—are content to sit by and watch the one aesthetically pleasing corner of this campus uprooted and transformed into the John E. La Tourette Honorary Concrete Preserve.

You seem to be suggesting there is some sort of hierarchical dynamic at work on this planet, that humyns—having achieved that much celebrated ability to reason—sit “naturally” on the uppermost rung of some life-form ladder.

What you fail to recognize is that every natural element is essential, equally important in function, for the sustenance of this ecosystem Earth (excluding mankind, of course, who exists, ironically, to ensure that one day he and his enslaved humyn and non-humyn subordinates cease to exist).

You editors need to look beyond the boarders of your little oasis at the bigger picture. A tree here, a tree there: we are systematically wiping out ecosystems.

It is attitudes like yours that accelerate the death of this planet. Stop testing the limits of Earth, she is not immortal. Forever inmemoriam the willows.

Christine Bradley

Senior

English