"Green" policies are destroying this country

I don`t see why more people in the area resulted in those business`s ceasing other than it being due to larger urban centers. It would appear as if urbanisation had more to do with the impact on your village than an increase in houses and the subsequent population rise in the area.

You see that is the problem with this idea of some wishing to "tidy up the countryside" to accord to their wishes and their ideas on what is sustainable. It becomes a domino effect where everyone ends up living in large urban sprawls. Not great for society in general imo, but if some believe the countryside should be turned into one large public park for them to visit occasionally if the the mood takes them, I can see why it would have an attraction for them. Even though they would have to watch out for the wolves, lynx and whatever else was let run loose.

once again, most of our energy problems were noted long before this government, i.e. this is an accumulation of neglect of our energy system for years, but yes, our current government is indeed adding to it, including the greens, i.e. this isnt an exclusive problem of the current government, including the greens

What we’re ending up with now is similar to urban sprawl of some kind. We’ve houses strung out along roads leading into towns and villages, with petrol stations and retail parks(for larger towns) as the dominant commercial areas. The centre of the town is then dead with few shops and even less people living in them. Perfectly good buildings and housing stock is abandoned and falling into ruin. I see these urban/village centres being slowly abandoned. We all do. And the worse it gets thr less people will want to go back into the town.

in my opinion, this is absolutely terrible and is something that has seriously accelerated in my lifetime. At the same time I see houses popping up all along our country roads between our villages. If you want that to continue then fine, keep on with the current policies that have brought us to where we are.

The population of the island is going to grow by 1m in the next 30 years. That has to happen in line with sustainable development focused on vibrant towns or villages, as well as the cities ( but I personally am not too concerned with that). I have no idea if Green policies can help with that but I’d be fairly sure that the current policies and attitude to development cannot.

It must be a serious burden to have so much knowledge and have to lower yourself to debate with the common people on here. Take care you dont hit your head on the way down from your lofty perch.

Problem is that the theory has a major hole in it. Your own village shows that. More houses and more people in the area yet business`s in the local village are gone.

Moving people out of rural settings would be good for landlords who own vacant premises in larger villages where people would have no option but to pay rent due to not being able to afford to buy a site on the outskirts and we all know how the rental market works these days. When those rental are full, more houses will be built by private developers on the outskirts. More urban sprawl and the societal problems that go with that,to be either priced even higher than before or again rented out.

What happens then when some faceless bureaucrat, similar to what is happening with planning permission, then decides that village isn`t really sustainable either. Move everyone to a larger urban setting..... and so on so on ?

Do not be fooled by green "policy". It`s an ideology that, like their energy policy, is not thought through because they are not that interested in how it works out other than you will end up owning nothing and told to be happy with your lot. They are an urban party, and if the attitude of their supporters here is anything to go by, they have a deep hatred of anything rural. Why I have no idea. Traumatised at a young age on a visit to the countryside by a goose saying boo to them possibly.

Not everyone wants to live in "vibrant towns or villages".

What is this, good green cop, bad green cop? Here's bad cop slapping us down for confusing weather with climate:

And here's good cop giving us a weather report (because you're allowed to confuse weather with climate when you're fighting the good fight):

Either of you like to post a link to what the IPCC actually says about past climate trends in Europe, like I asked previously?

In my job if I spent two years adding to the problem by ignoring memos and warnings, blocking or attempting to block anything that could have helped, when it became obvious that the company was heading towards the wall, how do you believe the reaction to my excuse for that being "Well the lad before me was doing the same" would have been received. ?

I would have been shown the door before I finished the sentence.