Posted By: Tom ReingoldThank you, Joan. I didn't have a strong opinion, but now I will vote no.
Posted By: wendyTom, before you cast your "no" vote I suggest you do a search on all of Chip Nolet's comments. He addresses point by point each one of Joan's points above. His points, along with what I learned from reading others' comments, particularly Hank Zona's, have convinced me to vote "Yes."
i wonder how i (and most of you) got along during my childhood with grass and dirt fields. to listen to some of you, we should get rid of grass altogether and live in an artificial turf world. amazing...
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I posted the gist of this on another thread, but forgive me if I feel it's important enough to bear repeating here. Some folks think that opposing the new artificial turf field means opposing organized sports. Maybe there's some truth to that; but maybe that not a bad thing in the long run...
If supporting organized sports means hurting the environment --- either by laying down artificial turf, or overusing water and pesticides to maintain grass fields --- maybe we should be having a discussion about whether organized sports at this level are worth the effect they are having and will continue to have on our planet.
I have two children--one who plays soccer and one who I hope will be athletic when he gets older, but there are many ways to be athletic and stay healthy and play sports without spending millions of dollars and/or contributing to global warming to do so.
At the end of the day, everything we do on this earth adds up. You may think this is such a small area of land that it doesn't matter--but it does matter. Everybody who thinks that small actions like this don't really matter contributes to the destruction of our natural ecosystems.
Look at what's going on in the world--the polar ice caps are melting; we're seeing devistating hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico destroy entire American towns and cities; massive droughts in Africa killing hundreds of thousands of people...I could go on and on.
It's time to stand up to this kind of thinking and make some HARD choices in our towns and communities. At the end of the day, I'd rather my sons to actually have a planet to raise their children on than have a new artificial field to play soccer or football on for a few years. It's time to really start thinking globally and acting locally.
It's just time to say ENOUGH!!!
VOTE NO on Nov. 4