This
is a letter I have written to the Prime Minister:
Dear Prime Minister,
My name is Emily Hudgens (13 years) and I wish to ask something
of very great importance of you.
My uncle and I protest very highly against old growth forest clearfelling
and plantations.
I, and a great deal other than me, will protest against this until
it is put to a complete stop.
1080 is the poison that is killing off many of the endangered,
and almost extinct native animals that only find a home in Tasmania.
If "little ramble" in the Styx valley was naught but
a small party to you, then I would like to see what you call a
large protest!
If you could hear cries of trees, you would be overwhelmed by
the screams and pleas of bygone giants that you have ordered to
be cut down and burned into unrecognizable ash.
If you look at a tree and feel its spirit pulsing around you and
you see it as an equal, you will also see that this order that
you have passed is an order for barbaric slaughter and murder.
If you happen to take a walk in an old growth forest or a recent
plantation you will see what I understand and you will hopefully
hear the cries of the spirits you have wiped from the face of
this earth.
Did you even consider that without these plants, we humans will
disappear too, because trees equal air.
I don't know how you can stand it with this on you conscience,
but if you do not consider anything I have said in this letter
and send me back a feeble explanation of what you can and "can't
" do the murdering and slaughtering will continue until there
is nothing to sustain human life on Tasmania.
I am only a young person, but hopefully, through this letter,
you have felt how I and many others feel and especially express
our feelings to you about this inhumane, savage, and violent act.
Sincerely,
Emily Hudgens from America |
