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Nimby's... I hate them

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  • If that's the argument, we should stop building altogether, as every bit of land has some natural value to some part of the eco system.

    Building on a brownfield site in a city obviously has less of an environmental impact on the eco system than building on farmland/greenbelt.
  • abaxas wrote: »
    You cant argue that case as almost all our countryside is farmed, hence a non natural habitat.

    If we build on farmland then where do we grow our food?
  • DervProf
    DervProf Posts: 4,035 Forumite
    If we build on farmland then where do we grow our food?

    Similar question to.......

    If we don't manufacture electronic products, where do we get them from ?
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  • DervProf wrote: »
    Similar question to.......

    If we don't manufacture electronic products, where do we get them from ?

    Hardly an ecological choice to import food that we are more than capable of producing ourselves. The rise in the cost of food stuffs compounded by the rise in transportation costs.
  • Esoog
    Esoog Posts: 1,489 Forumite
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    If we build on farmland then where do we grow our food?


    Tesco?......
  • Esoog
    Esoog Posts: 1,489 Forumite
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    Hardly an ecological choice to import food that we are more than capable of producing ourselves. The rise in the cost of food stuffs compounded by the rise in transportation costs.

    Alas the large multinational corporations aren't too interested in ecology, more "profitology"
  • atush
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    Am I the only person who thinks that windmills (the new kind that generate power) are actually kind of attractive/beautiful? They have a lovely aspect. you see them all over in France and people actually like them.

    Everyone is a Nimby if you are talking about things that will affect your house price.
  • WestonDave
    WestonDave Posts: 5,154 Forumite
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    NIMBY's complaining about 25 thousand houses are rank amateurs compared to the ones round here. This weeks local paper has 3 NIMBY stories - one about a Vodafone mast (fair enough some people don't feel safe with them so I have slightly more sympathy here), one about BT having installed a green broadband cabinet on their street for new superfast broadband - they don't want one in their street!, and finally one about a garden wall which has been built in stone with more of a red/orange tinge than they would like, and has gravel parking area rather than block paved! In the second two cases I would personally be ashamed to be seen making such petty objections.
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  • Davesnave
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    atush wrote: »
    Everyone is a Nimby if you are talking about things that will affect your house price.

    Answer. Nutshell. ;)
  • lemonjelly
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    OP, you have a TV, PC & internet access but are homeless?

    Wow!
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
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