[Wavytone]

The problem with that kind of thinking is that applied across the board we’d have no parks, no open spaces - not even trees - just wall-to-wall tar roads, car parks, blocks of apartments, shopping centres, hospitals and schools.

And that pretty much sums up some parts of Sydney already - it’s clearly what will happen if developers like Meriton are given free reign.

The difficulty with that model is there is nothing for people to do in leisure time - short of jumping in a car and driving for hours to some hopelessly overcrowded beach or patch of grass. But then according to some, leisure is a waste of time. And it becomes reality for many because to go anywhere nice takes so bloody long - and the cost - you don’t, and instead stay at home in front of the TV getting fat & lazy.

If you want to live like that I suggest go to any of dozens of cities in India or China where the environment has been totally destroyed - and that is the norm - and find out what’s wrong with it. The neglect of the environment there is so bad the sun is not visible by day - the air is a grey murk that tells you its daylight. And no moon, no stars.

It’s like that for many hundreds of kilometres, and there are real consequences for vegetation, trees, agricultural crops. There are no birds to be seen or heard. No animals either, other than those in cages being force fed.

That is the end result from people who think like you do.

The night sky is equally part of the environment. If you don’t start to care about it’s destruction you’ll realise one day astronomy has been destroyed too.