I am not totally against development, that would make me more of a hypocrite than I already am.

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:41:06 -0400
From: Glenn Carter
Subject: Chatham Park

I am not totally against development, that would make me more of a hypocrite than I already am. After all, I drive a car using gas, metal, and oil. I live in a house built of wood from felled trees, and I benefit from dangerous nuclear power and natural gas to light, heat, and cool my home.

Now my state wants to fast track fracking for more natural gas, putting our water table at risk. And developers with $$$ signs in their eyes want to level 7000 acres and put a grid of concrete, steel, and asphalt over it. Just like where I was born and raised, NYC.

I can’t help but think of my distant uncle Cornelius DeWitt who was the surgeon on the Half Moon, sailing into “New York” Bay, and seeing the beautiful island I would be born on. The island that to me seemed to have everything, yet I would escape from it at every chance into the mountains. These solitary treks would preserve my sanity from the chaos I saw every day in midtown Manhattan. I escaped with my wife in 1985 and rarely looked back.

Now I see the state we escaped to lose its best jobs to globalization. More and more of it is hacked up for McMansions, thousands of square feet for so few residents. And another wonderful idea in the name of “progress” to level more of our Grandmother’s riches in the name of greed. It boils down to greed. I know people must have jobs to make that Monopoly money called “federal reserve notes” so they can be good consumers and generate more debt. And people are most important, from womb to tomb. People cannot stay healthy and survive when the very land that sustains them is “fundamentally transformed”…

There are enough resources on this planet to sustain us all, but not when our Grandmother is raped, plundered, and poisoned by the greedy with little or no regard for the consequences. And the last thing I want is our growth dictated by outside entities, whether they be developers, bureaucrats, or the United Nations. So really I have no answer to this except to move VERY slowly and openly. Remember, he who dies with the most toys is still dead, and leaves their toys in probate…or to decay in a landfill. Peace to all.

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”  – unknown

Glenn Carter
https://www.youtube.com/user/combatjm89

PS – I got two waves last week – one from a deputy, another from Pittsboro PD. Things are looking up!