The Sounds of the Blue Mountains
The dominant sound in our beautiful city in a National Park especially in Hazelbrook today and almost every day is the roar of the chain-saw, the grinding of the chipper as yet more of our emblematic trees is reduced to chips. Bad luck for the possums, miniature bats, koalas and birds – their homes and roosts gone. Let’s not forget these same trees are carbon storage and carbon sinks releasing precious oxygen. Dead and ground into mulch all they can do is rot and release methane. Where are the climate champions, the greenies as these magnificent trees are lost. In the 20 years I’ve lived in Hazelbrook so many trees have gone just in my near neighbourhood. We are set for hotter summers with less cooling trees. The sound of chain-saws will be replaced by the hum of air conditioners powered by coal and gas as our town becomes just another suburbia bereft of its natural beauty, its trees.
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