Dear Sir/Madame, I believe…

Dear Sir/Madame,
I believe we need to preserve and expand the Greenbelt for the well-being of people, water quality, climate action, forests, and wildlife. Bill 66 could expedite development of environmentally sensitive lands and negatively affect the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail as well as planning policies such as the Greenbelt Act, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act, the Clean Water Act and the Great Lakes Protection Act. Let's protect the Greenbelt from urban sprawl. The Greenbelt ensures the protection of fertile farmland and our natural heritage and provides ecosystem services such as clean air and water, climate change and stormwater mitigation, carbon sequestration, reduced strain on city infrastructure, and habitat for birds, turtles and species at risk. It helps sustain biodiversity and our quality of life.
At a time we are campaigning to save the Amazon rainforest from the atrocious policies of President Bolsonaro in Brazil who'd destroy the "lungs of the Earth" to expand animal agriculture, let's be examples and not hypocrites at the local level.

Thank you.
Anita Krajnc
founder of www.TorontoPigSave.org and www.TheSaveMovement.org