Lenzie Moss Saved

An environmentalist at the “SaveLenzieMoss” campaign which I seem to have been nominally acting spokesman rang me today to say that we had saved Lenzie Moss.
Whilst this isn’t strictly true as part of the Moss is still under threat, the area of main concern which could effectively “pull the plug” on the moss and drain the area destroying the whole area should be saved.
However, the whole episode has left a bitter after-taste. East Dunbartonshire council have come out of this looking like a bunch of sharks who all along planned to destroy the Moss in order to turn over the area to housing. The whole episode shows the way the land developers will step by step eat up all the green land around Glasgow until Lenzie is just another bit of urban slum in the greater Glasgow sprawl. But worst of all is the green part and other eco-groups. Because the Scottish green party did nothing at all to help this area and in fact there were more sceptics active in the campaign than greens!
But, let me be frank. Apart from attending a few meetings (and creating a website, posing for a photo, taking some others, delivering a few leaflets (like others)) … I didn’t do much as most of the work was done by one passionate individual named Christine.
And the big unanswered question: was I a nimby? Or did it really matter to anyone outside this area that we saved this “educational resource”? Or perhaps the answer is much simpler: the local council do F all for people in my area and given that there are next to no shops, no pubs, restaurants, no work units … in short almost nothing except a local school (which is good) the least we should expect of our local council is that they don’t destroy the only thing (no thanks to them) that makes this area half bearable: Lenzie Moss.