NickB wrote:“Well, why did everyone just let it happen?"
Because the
great majority of people
demand it:
- The overwhelming majority of people support the big supermarkets (and by default their ethical position) by shopping there and/or using their financial and other services, and demand increasingly cheap (and nutritionally barren) food products. Anyone who shops in these super markets (myself included, although not
too often (smug git)) supports their disgraceful policy towards farming and our environment.
- The majority of people in this country support the apparent requirement for an increase in the rate of house building to mitigate an alleged housing shortage (although not in their back yard of course).
- The majority of people in this country would like to see the economy recover (whether it is from the effects of global recession or the actions of an irresponsible government it's not important where you stand) and this shall require significant investment in the country's infrastructure and growth in the sectors of the economy which generate significant income for the treasury, as well as perhaps (in the long term) a return to a manufacturing (and natural-resource hungry) base.
- A worrying percentage of the population consider it appropriate to build a massive amount of highly inefficient wind farms in some of the least developed areas of the countryside.
- Almost every single person in this country who is able to sustain cognitive thought would like an increase in the standard of living that both they and their family enjoy (by whatever measure they choose) and this is nigh impossible to achieve without significant environmental detriment.
The great majority of people in this country therefore support the continued degradation of our natural environment, irrespective of whether or not they declare how terrible it is.
Felix.