Environmental issues
Sir, — After making an effort to attend Tuesday night’s Environmental Vanguard Organisation election meeting we have come away with the feeling that all these environmental, conservation, and litter campaigns are just sheer hypocrisy. We had hoped that here at last the people i who are concerned about i their environment would be ]able to hold an intelligent i discussion with those who are responsible for creating or destroying it. Instead, nearly two hours were taken
up with speechmaking, platitudes and promises which we have already read in your papers. The large audience was scarcely given time to put questions, the reason for attendance, and not a few left after an hour. We have come to the bitter conclusion that the people have no voice. As citizens we are puppets in the hands of the local bodies, so we will not be wasting our time voting on a piece of paper that has no meaning. — Yours etc., MUTE. September 25, 1974.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33650, 27 September 1974, Page 12
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162Environmental issues Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33650, 27 September 1974, Page 12
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