In the natural world things have always changed. Any biologist or any geologist will tell you that things are continually changing, that's true. But we are making changes so quickly that it would be very difficult for many species to accommodate to that change. And not only that, whereas in the past species were able to migrate to follow the changing conditions, so much of the surface of the land now is taken up by us and our buildings and our tarmacs and our roads that it's very difficult for species to move in that sort of way. And so if they can't move, they will disappear. – Naturalist Sir David Attenborough

Since we have relatively little in the way of development and rezonings ... we probably don't need full-time people to do a lot of that," he said, adding that idle hands can be the devil's workshop. If you have, for example, a full-time planner and there's not much left to plan, then any self-respecting planner will almost look for things to do -- things that may chagrin the residents. – Metchosin chief administrative officer Joe Martignago