Welcome To Council Madness Where You’re Not Allowed To — Just Because
Just because the rules were mandated 70 years ago, when we had fewer concerns about water, bush fires, or global warming — or the future generally
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So effectively a few things happened in the last few days.
Firstly, I went out to check the verge in front of our house, so I could decide on the heirloom seeds I wanted to plant.
That’s when I discovered council had come along and poisoned a strip of lawn on each garden, I’m guessing to ensure that things looked tidy.
I was devastated.
Who suggests such action?
Have they taken steps to be informed about safety? (And by the way, reliable safety information you can’t expect to find on the back of a container of chemicals. Somebody has to be in the position of researching, feeding their results back to the authorities, and making a decision based on clear evidence.)
And does whoever suggested it was a fine thing to do, have any idea about the ramifications of their actions, for their pooches, if not for their children who live and play on grass.
I was reminded of Rachel Carson’s Book Silent Spring (1962). “A work of nonfiction, the book is a gracefully written indictment of the pesticide industry that arose in the late 1950s. It presents a piercing look at the damage these chemicals cause to birds, bees, wildlife, and plant life.”
Over sixty years ago, she witnessed the following:
“Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.”
Remembering this was written long ago she suggested that,
“A Who’s Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones — we had better know something about their nature and their power.”
