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All the talk about not building in a flood plain is misdirected There are numerous settlements built in flood plains across the world, and many in Western Canada. And it's not like other places outside of flood plains are immune to other kinds of natural disasters. A lot of the destruction currently happening is outside of the flood plain, like I am pretty sure the Coquihalla isn't in a flood plain.

There should be limits placed on development and growth in some of these areas, but that is a political issue that opens up a whole can of worms. Modern capitalist society demands constant growth unfortunately. It can't be infinite and eventually things will get to a breaking point, perhaps we are getting close to that.

As a side note, I am a little confused about the hoarding happening on the island. They have been cutoff from the mainland since the last ice age and get their crap through ports anyway.

Edit: Forget the last part I guess. I just clued in that a lot of their resources still come through Vancouver on land before shipping out.