Who has the real job?
Colin Smith, Glen Waverley, The Age (letter), 8/4/2002
Someone drove through the anti-logging protesters' base camp near Goolengook
last week and shouted, "Get a real job!" A few kilometres away the loggers
were hard at it, smashing up what little is left of an ancient, unique,
heartbreakingly lovely and quite irreplaceable ecosystem - precious and
productive, as it stands, for water filtration, soil holding, climate saving,
scientific research, attracting tourists, sustaining endangered animals
and restoring human souls.
They are destroying it mainly to produce woodchips, a cheap commodity
that could be got from existing plantations. They are subsidised, and protected
by police, at considerable expense to Victorian taxpayers, some 80 per
cent of whom also want this madness stopped.
Do you call that a real job?