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| George Monbiot. |
These floods
were not just predictable. They were predicted. There were clear and
specific warnings that the management of land upstream of the towns now
featuring in the news would lead to disaster.
On December 9, one of my readers told me this. “I live in
the middle of Foss drainage board land above York, where flooding would not
harm a single property but water is sent down as fast as possible to York”. A
few days later, another reader wrote to me, warning that “upstream flood banks
now protect crops, not the City of York.” On December 26th, the Foss exploded
into York.
Read the piece by George
Monbiot - “Going Downhill Fast.”
(The incompetence,
ignorance and concessions to favoured interests George Monbiot writes about
here will be repeated around the world as people, communities and nations
wrestle with the consequences of the seriously disrupted world climate system –
Robert McLean.)
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