No return

A very good letter from Leo Helleur (‘Trust nature’, December 11).

How true are the words of the Bible, that mankind will be his own downfall, with his love for wealth power and control.

There is no way we can continue to rape our lands and waters of life and pollute our air and universe with waste, as is happening at present.

It is a well-known fact that pollution is having an effect on air, water and land, caused by human activity, resulting in land dying, fish stock declining, water pollution and smog, along with trees dying from acid rains, disease etc.

We head into uncertain times, as we face everincreasing population growth with more pressure placed on nature, which is already showing signs of not coping with ever-increasing bush fires, storms, flooding, ice melt, droughts and more.

It appears plain to me that our eco-system is dying, along with its micro-organisms and depletion of minerals, and poisons to land, air and water by pollution, chemicals etc developed by mankind himself.

One would need to be 70-plus years old to remember what real food tasted like, grown in the home garden, with human, animal, grass, leaves etc used as compost, along with natural lime, sprays, hybrid plants, chemical fertilisers or processing unheard of, just fresh fruit, berries and veges, from garden to plate.

Unlike today, we did not have the chemist and health stores. One wonders if the health food and pharmaceutical companies are not working hand in hand to support each other, as those living today in their 80s, 90s some over 100, have lived through some hard times, e.g. World War I, the Depression years, World War II, and the diseases they feed.

Yes, it is a recorded fact that Alec Campbell, who was 16 years old, served in Gallipoli in 1915, and died in 2002, at the age of 103 years, a great old age considering the hardships and diseases he faced in his active service years in World War I.

Both scientists and the Bible predict that life’s problems shall increase beyond anything that his world and its people have ever known. I believe we have gone past the point of no return, as they battle inherited problems from the generations before them, along with ever-increasing debt. JOHN BASSETT

Diggers’ Valley