Walking your dog, mitigating climate change




Minnehaha Falls.

Rich Broderick writes about taking his dog “Chance” for a walk, and swim, off-leash park at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis in the U.S. - he could have just as easily been writing about something similar, somewhere in Australia.

Broderick, of the Daily Planet, writing on LA Progressive, in a story headed: “Me the People: Public Good, Private Greed” said that if many present political practices had prevailed in the late-19^th and mid-20^th centuries then such things as Minnehaha Falls would not have existed.

Consider for a moment the grandeur of inner-Melbourne with its wide and
spacious streets and the calming and generously laid-out parks and gardens and the political foresight and courage it took to allow for and set aside those public spaces.

Mitigating the causes of climate change and building a society that can cope with those evolving changes, demands a similar foresight and courage from our present politicians, whatever political creed or philosophy they adhere to.