Green v. Green
Apr. 25th, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerMuch media chatter in the aftermath of the failed huge wind farm proposal in Scotland. This is a good one.
Mark Lynas on How Environmentalists Are Battling One Another - Guardian (UK) - 24 Apr 08
"All this suggests that environmental concerns of a generation ago - which were conservation-based, principally - are increasingly being trumped by the climate-change concerns of today. Indeed, if climate change does come top of the list, given its potential to devastate both biodiversity and the British landscape, then it certainly needs to be given more weight in planning decisions. As Sir Martin Doughty, chairman of Natural England, said in response to the SDC's Severn Barrage proposals: 'We have some difficult choices to make if we are going to get serious about reducing the impact of climate change on the natural environment.' And making these difficult choices means knowing what we value most, and how to protect it."
Mark Lynas on How Environmentalists Are Battling One Another - Guardian (UK) - 24 Apr 08
"All this suggests that environmental concerns of a generation ago - which were conservation-based, principally - are increasingly being trumped by the climate-change concerns of today. Indeed, if climate change does come top of the list, given its potential to devastate both biodiversity and the British landscape, then it certainly needs to be given more weight in planning decisions. As Sir Martin Doughty, chairman of Natural England, said in response to the SDC's Severn Barrage proposals: 'We have some difficult choices to make if we are going to get serious about reducing the impact of climate change on the natural environment.' And making these difficult choices means knowing what we value most, and how to protect it."
