Hi to everybody...today in the Independent the headlines were about the 100 new routes from our airports in Britain that have been set up recently, thus ignoring completely the warning that planes are responsible for a high degree of the alleged global warming going on around our world.
The airline companies are either refusing to accept that this is the case, or simply don't care. Getting people around the world as cheaply as possible and as quickly seems to be on the cards now, and it will increase as travel becomes accessible to even more people with China's, India's and the Far East's economies growing steadily enabling more and more of their people to travel, not to mention Russian and the Eastern European countries' peoples as well.
The need for ever larger airports will become vital if this continues, and this is a small country. You build onto an already large airport and that many more people living in the vicinity are affected by noise pollution and all the other problems low flying aircraft cause when coming in to land and taking off...
It's all very well to be a popular place to come to and for our people to want to go abroad for their holidays, but we do have to consider the actual size of our country...it's already drowning in roads, and we're constantly being told more need to be built to accommodate the increasing numbers of cars on them every year, and then there's the car parks, and now we're going to have to expand our airports as well...will there be anything left of our once beautiful island when all these competing machines have had their needs fulfilled?
I wish I knew the answer to that question. I'm not at all confident, we're not going to eventually turn into a complete damned concrete jungle...big hugs to one and all...