Dear Sremmah,

At least you're doing what all of us should have been doing long, long ago. Environmental degradation is not an issue that has just cropped out of the blue. It's our greed and greed alone that has taken us to the stage where we are today.

Don't you think that most of our leaders have been concerned only on how healthy our economy should be rather than 'how healthy is the environment we live in'?

If economics is about 'supply and demand' than without our craze for timber related products to excesses then there wouldn't be 'deforestation' and our Carbon emissions getting into the atmosphere in the first place. Is the Turnbull's solution of pouring money into forestation of rainforest in Indonesia a good idea to address the issue?

I'm no where near being a scientist but my experience in petro-chemical industries and how 'illegal dumping' of toxic materials into our environment, may it be the sea, rivers or underground, had effect on it. Out of sight, out of mind had been the case in most occasions.

Despite the fact that we have 'Enviromental Impact Studies' and bodies with various names to monitor whether a proposed project has 'little' or 'neglible' impact on the environment, how come our environment is in such a mess today.

If we let businesses have their way without government control or legislative restraint dictated by 'greed alone' will be like a man killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The goose, our mother earth, is dying.

Please may people aware that enriching ourselves by selling coal, gas and other minerals without putting conditions (like the end user code in sale of weapons)is neither smart nor ethical if the greed of China or India is going to hasten us to our doomsday.

I'm sure that you are spot on by looking at Asia on these issues. As far as I'm aware we have not that much concern for the impact on the environment as a long term issue.