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Central Planning and one size fits all solutions-— work every time! /sarc
“Baroness Young of Old Scone”— that’s gotta be something out of Harry Potter doesn’t it?
The UK Environmental Agency stopped dredging in farmland to create bird habitat. The entire EU environmental policy mindset is full of this nonsense.
It's also been revealed how a dry spell in California has been turned into a drought courtesy of "green" policy. They diverted water intended to help the southern parts of the state [the bread basket] during drier years [up to 5 years length] in order to help preserve the Delta smelt (a bait fish).
Obama blames climate change, not green policies, for California drought
And then the Priests of Climate Change Ideology step forward to proclaim more of these green policies must be enacted globally [citing their green policy caused disasters as evidence that we must submit to more of the same].
Yesterday, John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State [greenie extraordinaire] is using the volcanic activity near Jakarta to advance a push for more global climate dictates.
Kerry Burnishes Green Badge in Asia as Volcano Disrupts Trip
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See Alexander and the Gordian Knot.
Amsterdam probably pays only lip service this EU regulation... would be interesting to see all these populated cities and regions go underwater. Maybe that is what actually happened to Pompeii!
“Gang Green” syndrome is as damaging to the body politic as gangrene is to the human body.
Many just fart in the general direction of Brussels and are done with it.
The Levels were first drained centuries ago because it made economic sense to do so: they were the best site in the country for cultivating willow, and thus the vital basket-making industry. The value of the fertile drained peatland for agriculture was also great. The benefit thus outweighed the cost (mostly huge quantities of dirt-cheap unskilled labour). That cost equation no longer holds, since plastics killed off the basket-making industry and the contribution of agriculture to the national economy isn't what it once was (alas).
None of the historic protection measures, or dredging, would have kept at bay cumulative rainfall totals of the exceptional kind experienced in the last two months (indeed, much larger areas of the levels were flooded early in the last century). A national flood prevention policy which prioritises population centres, the protection of life, and economically vital locations is logical and wise, even though its application may have been maladroit and poorly communicated.
Blaming the consequences of an Act of God on that policy is pointless. Those who have chosen to live in this artificial human habitat are obviously suffering, and I've every sympathy with those with generations of family history there. Less so for those who have chosen to build and live there recently - the caveat emptor rule surely applies.
[I live just a few miles from the Levels]
Same thing happens here in the US with forest fires.