Reply #2: Nimbyism is rampant in the UK

[Dead_Parrot]

I recall an article (shortly before I jumped ship) about a well-to-do community running a successful campaign to stop an off-shore windfarm being developed where it might spoil their view: That the community (somewhere around somerset, IIRC) was less than a metre above sea-level didn't even make them pause. And then there's the delightful Greenpeace opposes wind farm plan which made me realise just how badly Greenpeace had lost touch with planet Earth. Or the biofuel (chickenshit, to be exact) powerstation that got dumped near Northampton because people were "worried about the smell" even though there wouldn't be any...

The list is endless, sadly.

Just for shits and giggles, here's what the UK will look like in a couple of hundred years (unless they do something quick):



Goodbye Piccadilly: Farewell Leicester Square...