Victoria

The Growing City

I grew up in Melbourne. Very few people had cars, and the milkman used to come around in a horse and cart to deliver milk. So just about the only litter on the street was horse manure; we even collected it to put on the strawberries. We never had plastic bags, we would use paper bags, or we could come to the grocer with our own container, and he'd put our groceries in it.

We sometimes had droughts, but not very serious, it wasn't such a big deal, we always thought it was just another bad year.

There were much less fumes because of the general lack of cars. We had an incinerator in the backyard which we used to burn rubbish. Doing this has now been banned because of the fumes.

Nowadays consumerism is a problem, for example bottled water, which wastes so much plastic.  Pollution in the air will probably become so much more prominent, and we now have to be much more careful with water.

I believe these changes are for the worse, because of all the pollution, all the trouble of plastic bags and other types of plastic and the damage these are causing to the fish and wildlife.

Aeroplanes, which we never used for general travel, all add to pollution. Things are so often transported from overseas, when they could just be made here.

Melbourne has become a much bigger place in my life time.

I am concerned about what the future will bring if something does not happen soon.

Links to f urther information:

Princes Hill Primary School
http://www.phps.vic.edu.au