Climate refugees

[steve30000]

‘This is a wake-up call’: the villagers who could be Britain’s first climate refugees

 

[ouro]

I'm not sure how building a town on a tidal salt marsh was ever considered a good idea.

 

[Typhoonftm]

I'm not sure how building a town on a tidal salt marsh was ever considered a good idea.

Exactly. Hardly rocket science is it.

 

[Deleted member 361]

I'm not sure how building a town on a tidal salt marsh was ever considered a good idea.

Loads of places in the UK have been built on places they shouldn't have.

the climate change debate has enough evidence without propaganda like this

 

[ouro]

Loads of places in the UK have been built on places they shouldn't have.

the climate change debate has enough evidence without propaganda like this

I was in Colombia last summer and there were houses built on the stones of a river bed. When I asked if they ever get washed away when the river rises, the answer was 'Yes, all the time'.

 

[Lord Alfred]

I'm not sure how building a town on a tidal salt marsh was ever considered a good idea.

It's what you end up doing when your population grows as ours has.

 

[Gideon Gungeon]

Loads of places in the UK have been built on places they shouldn't have.

the climate change debate has enough evidence without propaganda like this

sickening tactics mate bullying folk through fear mongering

 

[Man About Town]

It's what you end up doing when your population grows as ours has.

Wrong, it's what greedy investors do when they see a quick buck. Should never be allowed to happen in the first place, look at the amount of daft shites that buy housing on flood planes next to rivers then complain when they get flooded out.

 

[Lord Alfred]

Wrong, it's what greedy investors do when they see a quick buck. Should never be allowed to happen in the first place, look at the amount of daft shites that buy housing on flood planes next to rivers then complain when they get flooded out.

When they get flooded out by deluges unseen in hundreds of years....i wonder why that happens.

 

[steve30000]

When they get flooded out by deluges unseen in hundreds of years....i wonder why that happens.

There's worse countries than us that's making a mess of the climate, but we can't tell them what to do, can we?

 

[Lord Alfred]

There's worse countries than us that's making a mess of the climate, but we can't tell them what to do, can we?

They aspire to have what we have so we have to change what we do before we can help them to change what they do.

 

[becs]

Wrong, it's what greedy investors do when they see a quick buck. Should never be allowed to happen in the first place, look at the amount of daft shites that buy housing on flood planes next to rivers then complain when they get flooded out.

They've built some near me. It was on grassland where a stream starts. In bad weather, all the water runs off the hills from Stanley and pools there. Some bloke from Durham County Council was adamant that it never floods even though several of us who walked there regularly pointed out that it does. Planning permission was granted and now the houses on that side are complaining because their back gardens are flooded when it rains heavy

 

[steve30000]

They aspire to have what we have so we have to change what we do before we can help them to change what they do.

So they only copy the things that the UK have? There's more developed countries that are taking the piss with the environment, and you can't blame us

 

[Lord Alfred]

So they only copy the things that the UK have? There's more developed countries that are taking the piss with the environment, and you can't blame us

Does that excuse us from taking unilateral action? We might not be able to affect global climate change on our own but we can make our country a nicer place to live while we wait for climate armageddon. Some of the countries doing the worst pollution are the ones most likely to suffer the consequences so its in their own interests to change.

 

[steve30000]

Does that excuse us from taking unilateral action? We might not be able to affect global climate change on our own but we can make our country a nicer place to live while we wait for climate armageddon. Some of the countries doing the worst pollution are the ones most likely to suffer the consequences so its in their own interests to change.

Do we not live on the same planet? It will affect us as well, there's no degree of impact it will have for each other... We All suffer

 

[Lord Alfred]

Do we not live on the same planet? It will affect us as well, there's no degree of impact it will have for each other... We All suffer

Of course we will but we can make life in our own country better by taking steps to live more sustainably ourselves. We can't change the overall outcome unilaterally but we can show leadership.

 

[Harry Angstrom]

When they get flooded out by deluges unseen in hundreds of years....i wonder why that happens.

Agribusiness and EU subsidies.

 

[BigPete]

They've built some near me. It was on grassland where a stream starts. In bad weather, all the water runs off the hills from Stanley and pools there. Some bloke from Durham County Council was adamant that it never floods even though several of us who walked there regularly pointed out that it does. Planning permission was granted and now the houses on that side are complaining because their back gardens are flooded when it rains heavy

Same down Earsdon in Whitley Bay every man and his dog knows it’s a a floodplain yet they’ve built loads of houses on it.

Unless they’ve done some serious new drainage work when we get a proper heavy rain can see it flooding.

 

[safcforever]

When they get flooded out by deluges unseen in hundreds of years....i wonder why that happens.

I lived near a place called high river. Every 5 years or so the river would rise and destroy a chunk of he local area. Then all the locals would complain about being flooded out. Then try and sell said properties, not be able to sell them because nobody wants to have to rebuild every few years.
It’s called high river for a reason.

Being curious I just checked the houses for sale there and they’re still asking over the top prices (it hasn’t flooded for a few years)

 

[Deleted User 2893]

When they get flooded out by deluges unseen in hundreds of years....i wonder why that happens.

The rain came down and the floods came up according to the little ditty I was taught in infant school