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| 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-19th and mid-20th 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.
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.
