tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post1180109535449066206..comments2023-05-06T10:38:46.550+01:00Comments on Stop Norwich Urbanisation Blog: Another Blog to recommendUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post-22326210108210640422010-12-04T19:31:54.544+00:002010-12-04T19:31:54.544+00:00I have made the following comment on the Transitio...I have made the following comment on the Transition website:<br /><br />"This is an absolutely brilliant overview Councillor Boswell. Though it is a pity that your written and spoken contributions to the Inquiry did not pack anything like such a punch - I suppose you were nervous, and I don't blame you. <br /> Since you have upped your game with such skill and rapidity, perhaps you are ready for the next stage. As someone who spent a lot of time as a teenager listing to seasoned ecologists like Teddy Goldsmith, Leopold Kohr, Diana Schumacher, Ivan Illich, etc., I have to tell you that your post above has already been said over and over again since the 1970s. Those who profit from Growth and Globalisation have paid no attention whatsoever - all they have done is develop a forked tongue where they babble on the one hand about carbon etc and on the other fuel the stampede for Growth which now includes "Green Growth" and "Sustainable Development", both a contradiction in terms in all countries more developed than Papua New Guinea. I seem to remember that the Amerindians complained that the colonisers spoke with forked tongues - but their complaints got nowhere, so we need to be a bit more pro-active or we and the rest of living biodiversity will end up in the same place as the First Nations of the Americas. In Reservations - and indeed if you look at the little green blobs on the GNDP maps representing "Nature" they look exactly like the South African Bantustans or the Palestinian “Bantustans” or whatever they call the disconnected blobs which are all that is left of Palestine. <br /> The only thing that works is either UN Law, enforced at a local level, or direct action, a useful euphemism for a range of activities which are not necessarily illegal because UN Law permits citizens to take matters into their own hands to some extent, as a Judge recently ruled in relation to the Kingsnorth protesters.<br /> A UN Convention is hard law - it MUST be obeyed by the signatories, and implemented at their national and subnational levels. I am afraid we are going to have to start using these Conventions coupled with any UK environmental Laws (and we have some pretty good ones believe it or not, dating back to the 1980s). No doubt a Parish Council could use them, so could a lone individual. So could a political party, or more than one political party acting together or separately. The more the merrier - again either together as a Class Action, or individually. Funds are only needed to pay court fees of a few hundred pounds and to defray award of costs against you if you lose - but if you have no money you can't pay the costs and if you own no property no charging order for the costs can be made against your non-existent property.<br /> The only other things Developers will listen to are earthquakes, financial collapse, bubonic plague, tidal waves, and large-scale famine - not necessarily in that pecking order. And they only listen to famine if it is so bad that it removes their customer base, otherwise they would ignore it because they would have plenty to eat somehow.<br /> By the way, you forgot to mention that all the houses are for people from outside Norfolk and the new jobs for the inmates of the new rabbit hutches will be in "Financial Services". These facts too emerged at the Inquiry and would seem to be fairly crucial when weighing up priorities."edith crowthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post-30529057231175177942010-12-04T12:19:43.849+00:002010-12-04T12:19:43.849+00:00When is this rotten GNDP Quango going to stop meet...When is this rotten GNDP Quango going to stop meeting in secret behind closed doors. We as taxpayers should NOT be funding this un-elected and undemocratic group.Democracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post-59938324763473892372010-12-04T12:15:34.794+00:002010-12-04T12:15:34.794+00:00Is it true that Rackheath has now been nominated a...Is it true that Rackheath has now been nominated as a Waste Disposal Site ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post-73351636364137356052010-12-04T12:14:02.223+00:002010-12-04T12:14:02.223+00:00With all the cuts the County Council are making in...With all the cuts the County Council are making in the VITAL services, surely they will never find the money for the NDR and Postwick Hub. Also when are Broadland DC going to hand back the £10.3 million as this money is urgently needed on more important items.Broadsmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2973149502277234867.post-88808017404346803192010-12-02T12:11:13.073+00:002010-12-02T12:11:13.073+00:00What with the need to cut carbon emissions and the...What with the need to cut carbon emissions and the huge cuts being made in VITAL services surely we cannot spend money on this going to nowhere road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com