Te had this tong-standing debate ¥ with : a friend
of mine named Hamish about whether or not to
run for the hills.

Long before any of us
heard of a Window of
Vulnerability, Hamish had
looked into the future and
seen not just a Window but a
whole 360-degree Horizon of
Vulnerability.

Yeh. A’ ‘Horizon — and a
whole unroofed Sky of
Vulnerability, too.

So he decided to split. He
got some property up the
coast. I won't betray him by
saying where. But it is
definitely inthe bush.” __.

He got together a few like-
mined families. They set out

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vice. .
It is also being approache:
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to consider a North Shore-:

wide recycling program.
Recycling in

recently lost
contract
Vancouver District.

When the District
minated its contract with the
company, New Life was
charging $7 per ton for
newsprint collected and had
warned that it needed to up
the rate to $15 because of a
slump in the market for
recycled newspaper.

Staff appraisals of the
service showed the District's
own garbage crews would be
able to dump the same
volume of newspapers at the
Premier Street Landfill at no
extra cost.

Alderman Stella Jo Dean
was named as City council's
newsprint recycling com-
mittee.

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with a sailboat, a tug and a
fishboat, pitched camp on
the shore and started
building a community.

With the exception of
batteries and imported
Andres wine, it was much as
though they'd plunged back
into the Dark Ages.

This was the nub of the
debate that Hamish and I
had been having for years
before he made the big
move. We both agreed that
it sure looked like-some kind
of new Dark Age was in the
works and that it only make

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sense to run for it while you
could.

My point was: if there’s a
Dark Age comng, why rush
to meet it? Why not stay
right here in the city, live on
credit, and wallow in the
excitement of every last
gadget you can get your
hands on while you can still
get away with it?

Plenty of time to huddle in
caves later, watching the
radioactive glow on the night
horizon.

On, the surface, my
argument looks feckless.
Glib. Irresponsible. The fact
that it is basically the main
reason most of us stay where
we are is beside the point.

Hamish was always very
firm: We owed it to our

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children to escape while we
could.

To that I had no reply —
excepta, helpless shrug. ~ “anywher
” Anyway, Hamish and his ©

little band-.of - zefugees from
an ‘apocalypse that. hasn't

come yet have been living « on .Pr
their island for six years -

now.

By last summer, they'd
built roughly two dozen
structures, linked. them
together by a primitive
telephone system, arid: even
rigged hoses so that they
finally have running water.

Life hadn’t been easy.
Yet, when I visited them, it
was to find that everyone
was cheerful, healthy and
about as content as you can

be when you're convinced .

the the end is nigh.
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There was one irony:
When NORAD’s computers
screwed up last summer and
jets were sent up to intercept
the enemy -- i.e., begin WW
II — guess where_some of
those jets were scrambled
from? Comox.

They screamed diréctly
over Hamish’s island retreat --

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