How can wetlands destruction be ‘progress’?
Last week, a beautiful wetland in our neighborhood was, by city “code,” demolished, leaving frogs hanging from trees to die, gorgeous cattails lifeless on the ground and a gaping mud hole, where once was pristine beauty. It was said that this was “progress,” benefiting the community by stamping out mosquitoes and bettering the environment.
Gone are the frogs that ate the mosquitoes. Gone are the cattails that waved in the breeze. Gone is the loveliness of nature within the glorious bog amid the cement and snort of civilization. And this is progress?
Muriel J. Phillips
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