do in the face of all these disasters? Introduce a carbon tax and pretend they have saved us! What a joke. That will never be enough to safeguard our climate. Reverse globalisation and you will save a lot more carbon-creating pollution than a tax will ever do, as well as saving jobs, creating food security and having a chance to protect our environment. Under corporate pressure there has been a steady intrusion into our will to save sacred and pristine places and a desire to safeguard our own survival. We need to revive a sense of self-preservation. Lynne Oldfield Nimbin Guns a piece of history As Remembrance Day looms, Ballina Shire Council's Draft Local Environment Plan disappoints with its views on Ballina's missing World War I trophy guns. The Draft LEP states: "The excavation of trophy guns is not considered a heritage management priority..." By whom? In 1921 Ballina Shire Council was gifted a WWI field gun captured by the 41st Battalion on the Western Front and a trench mortar, captured at Accroche Wood in 1918. Local soldiers had served in both areas, therefore men from this area could have died or been wounded capturing those guns or others nearby. Ballina Council signed an agreement that included permanent display and "subsequent preservation and safe custody." The guns were displayed in Ballina parks until a wheel fell off the field gun, then they were buried in a small Council tip, without public knowledge. Fortunately, Bruce Buchanan, a boy then 10, with