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A SHRINKING ISLAND
Some devastating results are coming out regarding the future of Britain – and I don’t just mean the changes in society. No, Britain is under attack by more than people and ideas. It’s under attack from water.
The estimated rise in sea levels over this century have increased to some five feet. The effects will be devastating on Britain’s coastline, already under assault as cliffs crumble and the size of the country shrinks.
But this is not the only problem.
The floods in the summer of 2007 showed a stark new danger. In recent years Britain has suffered from rivers bursting their banks, but the latest flood came from the ground itself being unable to soak up the deluge.
As in the Biblical Flood, the water table flowed up onto the land. Costing 13 lives, it wrecked 48,000 homes and cost billions. One city even became an island, and a wrecked infrastructure left sewage and chemicals swirling about our streets.
We are woefully unprepared for this in Britain.
And it seems to me that the government is doing little about it. The reason for this is obvious – what CAN they do without a major rethink of how we do things?
This is something that many countries will eventually have to face. At present, western society is thinking ‘big’, with things centralized. The only answer is to think ‘small’, and delegate more and more to the local.
If we don’t, a major natural disaster will spread through the system and finish us. Only with smaller, and local, infrastructures can we survive the coming storm.
© Anthony North, December 2007
SOAPY CHRISTMAS
Christmas Day TV in the UK was typical, with films most of the day and mostly SOAPs in the early evening. Indeed, if not for the incredible Doctor Who, most people would have had three hours of SOAPs to contend with …
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SAVE THE CHURCH
Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism. It appears this is a typical move by this self-publicising politician. Why do I say this? Because Catholicism has just become the leading Christian Church in Britain …
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THE McCANN CIRCUS
The McCann circus goes on – and on, and on, and on. I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of it. Indeed, as soon as poor Madeleine went missing, I had the feeling it would go this way …
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