Met one of my old collegues yesterday , a park ranger, to
talk about why one major tourist track was closed this summer when so many
people wanted to use it . It was also Bonhoeffers birthday and i am writing this to rememeber him and many other " angry men " who sought to get change through understanding and action.
The park rangers explanation was fine, and he told me how it would cost a fortune ( and some time) to remove some trees and shift some gravel , basically because a range of consultants were involved ( I used to advise them on matters of river management in house and on demand so that fllod repairs were carried out quickly - not over 6 mths as in this case ) .
The park rangers explanation was fine, and he told me how it would cost a fortune ( and some time) to remove some trees and shift some gravel , basically because a range of consultants were involved ( I used to advise them on matters of river management in house and on demand so that fllod repairs were carried out quickly - not over 6 mths as in this case ) .
Rather than be too
negative about this waste and recipe for irresponsible results ,( 2 easy ) I hoped to share my passion and method ( you need an
effective way to stop evil)
" to ensure some young people had the great decisionmaking jobs we had" .
I dearly hoped he would respond with " yes" ( One job on the coast here drew over 2000 applications 20 years ago )
I was stone walled . Maybe he thought the situation was impossible to change ?
" to ensure some young people had the great decisionmaking jobs we had" .
I dearly hoped he would respond with " yes" ( One job on the coast here drew over 2000 applications 20 years ago )
I was stone walled . Maybe he thought the situation was impossible to change ?
Speak up before you lose your voice completely
He said nothing in response to my suggestion that
decisionmaking will continue to be taken off people in the bush if they don't
stand up for themselves and their local right to be trained to do and to sort
jobs like the ones listed above - Our home towns are all the poorer for having less people who care closely enough to be there on the ground with landmanagers .
The fly in fly out mentality is growing even without aircraft being used.
You have to speak up for others as Martin Neimoller ( Bonhoeffer's contemporary) said (" they came for the Catholiics but I wasn't a ......so I said nothing " )or eventually your future too will be taken away. Martin Luther King repeats these familiar friends of his when he said it wasn't the bad people he worried about but the silence of the good.
The fly in fly out mentality is growing even without aircraft being used.
You have to speak up for others as Martin Neimoller ( Bonhoeffer's contemporary) said (" they came for the Catholiics but I wasn't a ......so I said nothing " )or eventually your future too will be taken away. Martin Luther King repeats these familiar friends of his when he said it wasn't the bad people he worried about but the silence of the good.
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