Thanks for the forum

Thank you for providing a great forum for the community to air their concerns and beliefs.

This opportunity is not always available to communities elsewhere and we are therefore extremely fortunate in having such a great vehicle as the Peninsula News to express our views and concerns, both locally and in the broader sense.

The finite planet (Margaret Lund), bringing back development (Mark West) and rising sea levels (Joachim Buchner), provided a good balance of discussion.

From my eight-plus decades of life on this fragile and finite planet, one looks at those youthful community members eager to change the old to the new.

If they survive the poor socially-unacceptable behaviour of their children and the ravaged, overburdened planet struggling to restore equilibrium and trying to shake off the massively excessive populations by earthquakes, fires, floods, rising seas, erupting volcanos then attitudes and beliefs will change.

They will be most surprised at themselves, decades down the track when they realise that their beliefs in their old age are very different from those they hold now.

With old age comes wisdom and a capacity for long-term vision for the future.

Letter, 21 Sep 2010 Zoe Russell, Umina