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IN HIS masterly summingup speech at this year’s planning conference sponsored by the Piedmont Environmental Council, Britisher Graham Ashworth urged his American friends to be unrelenting in their efforts to improve land use planning in this country. Before it is too late—and Britain, even though it is far ahead of the United States, may have acted too late, he admitted—Americans who love their land must do more to prevent its spoilation and exploitation.
The effort may well be one of the most important tasks that can be undertaken at a time when population is continuing to grow, pressures on food production are mounting, and when such basics to life as the water we drink and the air we breathe are deteriorating. Because it is so important, don’t be afraid of offending people, said Ashworth. Repeat the warnings that must be repeated as often as you can. Promote the cause of sensible planning and development controls at every opportunity, and do these things day in and day out, week in and week out, and then, when small gains are realized, go on to the next challenge with, the same tenacity. Do all of this at the risk of being marked down as a single minded bore or worse, because if we don’t, disaster—not just ugliness or inconvenience or
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