Year of Built Environment going too far

I know that this is the Year of the Built Environment but if we go on at the present rate, our descendants will know no other.

Most of our present flora and fauna will be read about in books in much the same way as we read about dinosaurs.

We have been led to believe that the economy is the only thing that matters but surely everything that goes to make that economy comes from our planet and surely the signs of strain to that planet are obvious.

We read daily about the lack of water; global warming; pollution; destruction of river systems; rising sea levels; loss of soil; rising salinity; loss of fish stocks; mysterious viruses; extinction of other species and so on.

We are the most successful of all the species but that very success may be our undoing. Covering the land with concrete and people may be good for the economy, today's god, but surely we need to consider the natural environment, which is essential for our very existence.

We should demand a population policy from our Federal Government as a first step and we should ask our Council to show some vision and retain more natural bushland on the Peninsula before it is too late.

For these reasons the people of the Peninsula need the Hillview site kept in its natural state.

Margaret Lund, Woy Woy Bay