I live in a well-to-do country and I live comfortably. A constant question for me is: how much am I willing to compromise and how much am I willing to give up for the benefit of the ‘environment’?
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Walking along a bush path, it is almost impossible to tell the weeds from the ‘real’ Australian plants. Actually, ‘weeds’ is the wrong term – there are indigenous plants and exotic ones, the exotics having been brought here by non-indigenous people. The exotics seem to have settled in well and are thriving.
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How far does our ‘community’ extend? In the past, it might have been limited to our village or, more recently, our suburb. This would be overlapped by our extended family and, for many working men, the crowd that gathered after work at the local pub. In the countryside it may have been a collection of farms and the Country Women’s Association and in Australia it would also have been indigenous tribes. Some of these communities still exist.
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I am writing to you as a penultimate resort as you are the CEO of New Concept Builders and you have the power to set things right. My last resort will be to take this matter to the media, but please don’t read this as a threat. I do not know if your General Manager (New Housing) has passed on to you any of my last twenty-eight letters, so I will recap.