Growth and environmentalism are perfectly compatible
From our UK edition
I’m an environmentalist and I say ‘build, build, build’! Let’s build gigawatts galore of Great British renewable energy and clean up our emissions. Let’s put a Bazal-jet booster behind sewerage infrastructure and clean up the filth in our rivers. When we build homes, let’s get with the times and invest in green infrastructure, our natural defences against flood, fire and crop failure. Even better, why not let beavers build some of it for us? Like the majority of the UK’s nature charities, I totally reject the Chancellor’s caricature of nature-lovers as stubborn ‘blockers’ in her confected conflict between nature and development. In her speech today, Rachel Reeves once again scapegoated bats for delays in development.
