It doesn't need to be rational.
"There's loads of people in China and India, what you're basically saying is there are too many Asians. RACIST".
Never mind that ten years ago there were some perfectly good green fields and a lovely woodland walk down the road which has now been flattened, tarmacked, and turned into a development of affordable homes because we're all living too long and making children too soon to reuse the homes that have already been built.
(, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 19:59, Reply)
Ordnance Survey data suggests
that all the buildings in the UK - houses, shops, offices, factories, greenhouses - cover 1.4% of the total land surface. Looking at England alone, the figure still rises to only 2%.
Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out.
The complaint that vast swathes of our landscape have been "concreted over" doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
But don't let me stop you. You were complaining about the people who let emotion, not rationality, guide their thoughts.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:21,
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It's actually closer to 7.5%
When you include things like Roads, Industrial and Leisure developments. Granted, that still doesn't seem like much on paper, but most people live in an area where the immediate availability of green space is significantly lower than that, and is only shrinking as occupancy expands. It'd be interesting to see a comparison against numbers in the 70's or 80's.
(, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 21:47, Reply)
Well 2% of that 'developed land' in England is just golf courses
That would be a 'leasure development' which is over a quarter of that 7.5%.
Just golf courses.
Want to complain about something?
Complain about that, not houses.
We could double the housing in England and all we would have to do is use the golf courses and nothing else.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 4 Jul 2020, 15:52,
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