Reply #46: As legitimate as someone who moves next to an airport and complains about the noise ... [View All]

[Nihil]

... or someone who moves to the countryside and complains about the smell
or someone who gets a nice riverside cottage then wonders why it floods
in the rainy season.

:shrug:

> And besides, people who live by the coast tend to actually quite like
> living by the coast ...

Fine. People who live in the mountains often like living in the mountains
but they'll get bugger-all sympathy when they moan about how much petrol
it takes them to drive to the nearest shop.

If you live by the coast, you have to expect erosion, silting and flooding
as it all comes with the territory - literally!

> ... and they aren't going to take to kindly to some fucknut from whitehall
> telling them that their property should be in the North Sea and they
> should all fuck off elsewhere.

Whilst I agree that Whitehall probably has the largest concentration of
fucknuts in the country, it really isn't their fault that someone bought
a house next to the sea without understanding natural processes and the
risks inherent in that location.

No-one is telling them that their property *should* be in the North Sea,
they are simply warning them that it is going to happen *regardless* of
any tantrums from people ignorant of the effect of natural forces so the
smart thing to do is prepare.

I'm not denying that it's a real pisser to realise that global warming is
coming to their very own doorstep rather than just to some poor bastard over
in Bangladesh. I am however saying that demanding expensive temporary
measures (for that's all they will be - temporary) that actively move the
problem from one doorstep to some other stranger's doorstep down the coast
is not a reasonable approach.

Finally, I am very unhappy to find that a DUer (for whom I have a high
regard) is apparently affected personally but having endured indignant
complaints on two of my first three comparisons above in the last month
(and finding far worse attitudes to nature in other forums here every day)
I was feeling less charitable than I should have been about the futility
of fighting nature. I'll try to be more generic with my comments in the
future; sorry if my brusque response inflamed an already sensitive
situation.

(Edit for rephrasing)