The Labour leader’s outburst followed a presentation from climate and net zero spokesman Ed Miliband
  • dad@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Those that prioritise preservation over progress have weaponised ecology to block development. They are sadly far from marginalised. For example a significant portion of NIMBYs abuse environmental law to block development from occurring near to them. You only have to look at the ban on on-shore wind for an example of this. People were worried about visual amenity, not ecology. That didn’t stop them using ecology as part of their argument to get them banned.

    • julietOscarEcho@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Your example about onshore wind (bird conservation as a convenient figleaf) shows precisely that NIMBYs are not environmentalists at all, hence not in “group1” by definition.