The government is trying to wish away problems such as flooding by doing nothing. It’s incompetence by design, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
But when I asked the company what works it had undertaken to slow the flow and reduce the flood peaks of the rivers that affect the line, it told me: “Network Rail is not carrying out any work of the nature you listed. Our focus is on building additional resilience into local rail infrastructure.” It is now shelling outon “rock armour” to protect the parts of the line washed out in February.
There is no learning involved in “learning to live with”. It tends to mean an inability to adapt to new realities, and in some cases looks like a total retreat into abstraction. In 2020, the US conservative commentator Ben Shapiro
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