DEATH BY 1,000 PIN PRICKS
There must be a new approach to public policy development that makes “Earth First” top priority. “Property” “economy” and “jobs” must serve “Earth First.”
The planning frame should be at least 100 years, possibly 1,000, NOT 25. Environmental change is occurring so fast that small decisions made locally avalanche regionally (e.g. downstream pollution), or even globally (e.g. ozone layer destruction).
The Economic Growth discussion is always the same: “highest and best value” (a misnomer if ever there was one – profits trump survival).
Fat City is over, although many are still trying to milk it for the last bit of cream. We must do more with less, and the rich must share or move out. We don’t need more deadhead users and freeloaders. We must develop a mutually supportive community again. The business of government is the people’s business; developers step to the rear. Legislators…
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