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the presence of another road.
Only seven per cent of people surveyed want the proposed grey route for another Arundel bypass.
Our government purports to want local decision making however it has chosen to ignore a locally generated scheme, the Arundel Alternative. How democratic is that?
The cost of steel, cement and aggregate are skyrocketing and must have blown the estimate of half a billion pounds out of the water. Where are truck drivers to be found in these post-Brexit/ post-Covid times?
Dredging aggregates from the Channel can severely damage spawning and nursery grounds of marine life and further destabilise the already endangered coastline, as well as spoiling the efforts of the enlightened few who are trying to increase sequestration of carbon in the diminishing kelp beds along our coast.
Atlocalandinternationallevel theneedforrethinkingthefuture is essential and needs to factor in every organism on land, sea and air if we are to combat the awfulness that climate change is already bringing .
There should be no room for obfuscation or greed in the future. All strategies for development should have need, not greed, at their heart and always conserve finite resources as intelligently as possible.
Perhaps we need to remember more often that this planet and its nature in all its glorious complexity can survive very well without us but we cannot survive without it.
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