SHOULD we not think more deeply on our economic approach to environmental concerns?
Ought we not fund environmental disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, snow blizzards and like disasters on the same basis as we do defence?
If the brass hats required scores of fighter aircraft at, say, £20m each, they would get them with little question.
I have never heard of a war being stopped through lack of funds; but I have heard of flood defences scaled down through lack of funds.
The recent flooding may well change into a regular pattern; I need not labour the anguish that causes.
Towns with houses on flood plains may need to be built on stilts a worldwide system or suitably designed houseboats.
However, I can see the planners of Much-binding-in-the-Marsh District Council (apologies BBC WWII Radio) and WWDC? objecting to such a solution.
AD ROWLAND,
Oldfield Road,
Westbury.
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