Building Big Things + Smashing Nature - WooHoo

The government appears to have gone to war against nature and beauty in

its attempt to get Britain building again. We should stop worrying about
the environment, get rid of the bugs, spiders and bats and focus instead on
what matters: creating more housing, employment and renewable energy. That
means prioritising solar farms over wildflowers and faster transport links
over forests. The thinking seems to be that these are elitist luxuries we
can no longer afford. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, summed it up when she
said last month she cared more about getting young families on to the
housing ladder than “protecting some snails”. She is evidently
considering a second planning bill that would make it far harder for
environmentalists to hold up infrastructure projects, limit protection for

limit protection for many species and curtail judicial reviews to block projects. Ed Miliband is