I have just come back from a local residents meeting. For all the time I have lived in Lady Bay the farm land to the East of where we live has been earmarked for development. Almost every year there has been a new attack to fend off, and we have won year after year. One of our best arguments has always been - it's good farm land, it should grow food'.
But, a few years ago, the farmer who worked one of these fields died, and the council did not want another farmer to take up the land, they wanted to sell it.
In these credit crunch days that now herald the end of the old economy of consumption, the council has still not caught on. All the arguments for building on the land here make no sense. A massive football stadium for the World Cup ( which we probably wont host and can't afford anyway ) is the most daft - we already have two ! The land floods, we don't need new housing because we have 60,000 empty homes here already that need renovation.. the list goes on... and people here eat food grown in other countries that should be eaten IN these other countries - but, they need income to pay off their national debts. Debts far smaller than our own - owed to who?
Money is imaginary, when people remember that, the bubble bursts in a 'crisis of confidence'. Food is real. Everyone should and can grow it locally.
That makes me sad...
I wanted to write a request for a 'comedy' section - to lift the spirits when the sort of thing I just mentioned flattens them - but I got depressed and forgot.
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