Watershed trail is a vision of hope
Some 20 odd years ago a number of concerned residents belonging to the then Warragul Landcare Group saw the need to preserve and nurture a section of Hazel Creek, a natural waterway running through Brooker and Linear Parks and planted many native trees in the area.
These are the mature eucalypts we see and enjoy there today.
Surely, in light of the recent controversy surrounding the short-sighted destruction of some 10 significant gum trees in the land earmarked for development on Warragul-Korumburra Rd council must develop a vision for the preservation of such existing native vegetation.
This would incorporate accessible, liveable natural spaces in our rapidly expanding town. If not, we are staring down the barrel of our beloved Warragul turning into another soulless, unsustainable, unliveable Pakenham.
The Watershed Bike and Walk Trail concept featured in last week’s Gazette, proposing a 15km shared path loop following Warragul’s waterway corridors is surely a vision of hope for us all.
Bronwyn Pearson, Lillico me. In the end, we can each google what we want to read, and put forward what we each find as theory or fact. History will judge us.
What we seem to agree on is that climate change is fact, and that, semantics aside, it is caused to a greater or lesser degree, by human activity.
Yes, consensus or probability is not fact, but in our lives we survive largely by consensus of expert opinion and probability. For example, when I go to the dentist, the doctor or the mechanic, and realise that failure to follow their expert advice could have dire consequences for me. Further similar opinions would only strengthen my resolve.
So, if I read, as a layman, that ‘’in its Fifth Assessment Report, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a group of 1300 independent scientific experts from countries all over the world, under the auspices of the UN, concluded there is more than 95 per cent probability that human activities over the past 50 years have warmed our planet”, I’ll probably pay attention and want to know how I can help.
And Will Allgood can read the empirical evidence, in full, that he requires. Proof? I would have thought so. Probable? Most would agree, but decide as you will. Pun unintended. Again, history will judge, and in fact has been doing so for decades.
Finally, Janet Cowden, (“Please explain” Gazette 16/5), the immorality and avarice of governments is a given, but does not alter the premise.