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In reply to the discussion: OMG, what terrible news to wake up to [View all]Denzil_DC
(7,234 posts)Older people like you (I'm not exactly a spring chicken myself) may think you can drift off into the nostalgic Cloud Cuckoo Land of warm beer and lilacs quite comfortably, but it's not going to last long before you too start feeling the pinch, just like the younger generation whose horizons some in the boomer generation have just drastically curtailed.
Guess what? That countryside is still going to be torn up. We'll still need alternative forms of energy. Cemetaries (seriously, what an issue to get hot and bothered about!) will still be segregated.
The difference is that it's highly likely the houses built will be even more ticky-tacky and in even more inapproriate locations as the government relaxes international regulations and standards willy-nilly in a desperate drive to throw up crappy jerry-built estates quickly for the population who will still need housing, probably on flood plains where people will be amazed when they have to row like hell to escape their homes on a regular basis.
That countryside you so fondly remember will probably be fracked beyond belief, and you'll be able to watch exotic birds drown in the vast toxic lagoons that will never be properly remediated because such niceties are unaffordable.
And any power production-based incursions on the countryside may well be even more extensive outside the EU because energy conservation's obviously just part of a vast EU plot to do us all down.
LOL. This is beyond parody. Thanks for the laugh. X