Protecting our future, one development at a time

To the editor: In a time when a price is put on everything, what price is our future worth? A price was put on cheap credit with the result being thousands of jobs lost and millions of people likely to lose their homes. A price was put on energy and agriculture with the result being global warming and contamination of fresh water sources. Global issues like these are the result of countless local events created by those with the power to effect change. It is our mayors, supervisors, planning boards, developers and the public as a whole who have a duty to look beyond the short term gains of monetizing our precious resources. Years ago, Warwick’s residents set a mandate to preserve our open space and the small Village of Florida held to preserving its precious natural setting. Recently, the few with power in Florida have decided for us that it’s right to approve yet a third large-scale development at the cost of irreversible change to the watershed surrounding Glenmere Lake, all for a few dollars. We need to ask ourselves: “When does the price of our future become too great?” If you answer “now,” tell those approving these developments before it’s too late. Tom Humphryes Florida