Well, I've been dreading it, but yesterday morning Nov 13 there was a bulldozer in my galah paddock pushing the rich chocolate brown earth into a heap. Last week fresh pegs went up, so I knew something was imminent. This morning an excavator was there as well, some serious earthmoving was underway.
My view into the Shepherds Ck west branch valley (beginning with three springs amongst trees to the left of the photo), which I've enjoyed so many times over the nearly two full years that I've been walking in the morning, will never be the same again. Sad for me.
But I musn't be hypocritical. I live in a house myself, and twenty six years ago I hired a bulldozer to knock down a heap of trees and scrub on our block to clear our house site. That no doubt was a sad day for some people, and birds and animals, who liked it the way it was before my house was built.
The thing is, I conclude, at some point we have to have less growth, no more houses, people, and all the cars, iron and concrete that comes with it. With the climate change factor it has to be sooner rather than later.
I'm voting 'Green' at the federal election on Saturday week. God, I wish more of our politicians could think like Bob Brown. And I say that with no intention of blasphemy. I mean it and pray to God for it. What about China?, you might ask. Well, as Kevin 07 says, we have to set an example. And, the Chinese have at least taken serious and effective measures to reduce population.
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