How Britain Is Heading in the Same Direction

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NEW Orleans is a wake-up call to Britain. Nevermind the blame, stick to the facts, and look at howwe are heading in the same direction.

Tectonic plates are shifting, out of sight, under the oceans; tsunami disasters are visible on swathes of ocean-bordering lands; ice-caps and glaciers are melting with consequent rise in sea- levels; climates are visibly changing to blasts of fierce winds, intense falls of rain; the sun is elusive, yet often intense; seasons are subtly different; coastal areas are eroding, where the land, especially in south-east England, is very gradually sinking.

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How Britain Is Heading in the Same Direction

Like the federal and state governments of the US, the British parliament and the other forms of government within the British Isles simply ignore these facts.

Low land, liable to flooding, and land on flood plains, is automatically built on by construction conglomerates hungry for accessible development sites, with specious "evidence" of various assessments, completely irrelevant to 2005 and into the next centuries.

Roads continue to...

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