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One Vote Against Tree Protection and Removal Ordinance by Musella at Council 9/25

Property in many ways in our time has become the enemy of nature and community

Musella based his opposition on property rights, and a slight against government as intended.
Property in many cases has become the enemy of community, and nature.
Now in our time of climate crisis, every action, we perform against ourselves mounts toward emergent properties and unintended, consequences, even ecocide purposeful malice as in Trump's Drill Baby Drill, and the demise of our National Parks, and wild areas remaining

Property is nothing is not a part of a whole, the whole is always greater than its parts for better or worse, depending in a complex system in which we all live, where one thing affects all things in the biosphere.

Musella remark on the NJDEP New stormwater ruling: "Some Bureaucrats from Trenton", telling us what to do here in Parsippany" One must ask the Councilman; Did you take an oath to the constitution? Do you live in and are you Councilman in a NJ Municipality?
You're a young man already set in his ways. Your rhetoric shows a closed mind, not only that but your politics are the anti-social non belief in government as intended. If you don't believe in govt' as intended, but the free market you should not be running for office, as your intention to to petition against it, minimize its power for privatization, and the destruction of govt' itself. Under such a system people are mere consumers that serve the economy, not citizens of a republic that serves them.

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Under a 2-party capitalistic corporatocracy that we are now living and subjected to, (rather than subordinated to).
When the two parties do not become the one in the name of the people, and the world of nature that sustains us, we are a lost race of cut throats, lost in a maze of noise, where opinions trump facts, and money is the drug of choice. Everything maybe believed but nothing known, you become the enemy of any possible common-good in the name of Human & Planetary wellbeing and a privileged misfit put in high places. Only nature can make anything great, to live outside it's laws and limits is Blasphemy .

Abraham lincoln- "God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time"

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We are a part of not apart from, community not individual , Ecology not economy or economy and ecology. Tomorrow , not today, Connected not separate

The Market exists in a vacuum outside the laws of Nature. Economics is not a science it's a political decision Endless growth is impossible, and unnecessary to solve social problems the market is unsuitable to solve.

Apparently Musella is also rejects science for market magical thinking to Openly slight a NJDEP Rule based on science is a rejection of any belief in a common-good

Land use decisions have significant impacts on communities, ecosystems, and climate, which cannot be fully captured by market forces. Ecological Services provided by nature, do have a price, called long term sustainability, beauty,and wonder. The market cannot put a price on these aspects, it can only turn earth into real estate, not living space.

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