I wish i had a camera

Yesterday I drove on a road, a few blocks away. It used to be a huge area belonging to the horse race track. The main building was converted into an additional casino with restaurants, and more recently work began to use much of the parking area of the race track for more restaurants, plus some condos. The machines are parked along the road, workers are clearing the trees and brush vegetation. In mid of the piles of earth, roots upside down and wilting bushes, a white crane was standing, with the long neck extended, next to the workers, the trucks and the excavating machines. He was not afraid of being so close to the noise and the people - i guess because he was so much more afraid of what he was witnessing: with the removal of all that natural vegetation, he and other birds, animals, insects - were all left without their home. Needless to say that South Florida doesn't NEED one more mall and one more condo. My heart was torn apart as i watched this silent observer. A bird - who is part of a race that has been able to survive without wars, without terrorism, without black Fridays, without credit card debts, without genocides, without creating an ozone hole, without depleting fisheries, without logging, without contaminating waters. Of course, what would a bird know about development and progress.