‘Kool-Aid conservationists’ are on the rise, and they’re part of the reason why Britain is still covered in water. So says Melissa Kite in this week’s Spectator, as she highlights all of the weird and wonderful creatures whose existence prevented the Environment Agency from improving flood defences. As Melissa puts it:
‘The river Thames was left undredged to prevent the disturbance of a rare mollusc called the depressed river mussel. Seriously, this is not funny. It would only be funny if it were not happening. But it is. The species known as the depressed taxpayer doesn’t seem to be on any priority list.’
And it’s not just the depressed river mussel. The EA, she discovers, are still planning on go ahead with a wild trout project in Chertsey, which will ‘dam up the water… and cause even more flooding’, while we’ve all heard about the ‘super’ habitat for birds that they funded.
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