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Protecting farms or front rooms? The impossible dilemma that climate change forces upon us
2014-02-04 13:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Statesman: At last, someone has said it. Chris Smith, chair of the Environment Agency, wrote in the Telegraph of the impossible dilemma facing Britain as climate change leads to ever-worsening flooding: "...This involves tricky issues of policy and priority: town or country, front rooms or farmland? Flood defences cost money; and how much should the taxpayer be prepared to spend on different places, communities and livelihoods -- in Somerset, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, or East Anglia? There's no bottomless...
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