They don't just brainwash kids with all this Warmenism stuff and Mary Secole Week, they start drumming NIMBYism into them at an early age as well, it would appear.
For today's geography home-work, The Lad had to colour in a map showing that nearly all of the UK is "quite crowded" or "very crowded". What a load of bollocks. Eighty or ninety per cent of the population live in urban areas which covers rather less than ten per cent of the surface area. Not only do people choose to live there because there are better job opportunities, amenities etc, they don't have much choice in the matter either, as The Hallowed Greenbelt prevents them from spreading out a bit. Outside the areas coloured red ("Very crowded", according to the map), the rest is pretty empty, as far as I have been able to observe by looking out of the windows of trains, 'planes and automobiles.
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I don't think the writers were actually expecting to encounter someone who knew what he was talking about. :)
Well, since they don't give any figures, the areas on the map are purely subjective. However this map: map.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Population_density_with_key.png
puts things in perspective. Globally, we really are a pretty crowded country.
JH, he had to write a paragraph about the map. I had to hold myself back a bit on that.
B, we could look at that map another way, and (ignoring the strip along the NE border of India) say that it highlights the wealthiest/most productive parts of the world/of each country. Ergo, the wealthiest/most productive parts of the UK/Europe are SE England and from Northern France via the Low Countries to Northern Germany. And that's a bad thing because..?
I live in a part of the country deignated " quite crowded" by Wadsworth Jnr. but it isn't and that is why I chose to live here.
I'm surprised at the nature of the propaganda though; The Lad might get dangerous ideas such as ever more migration not being a good thing ?
Presumably that task was part of what passes for Geography these days ?
You're forgetting NW England, Brum and the Scottish Lowlands.
My point was not that it was bad (why should our high population density be bad?), but that there are not many other countries with that much red in them, compared to yellow. What's wrong with crowded? Historically, people have chosen to live in cities at densities that would make our modern ones look deserted.
Oh dear MW. Hate to tell you that the global warming map will be coming your way soon.
Stand by your blood pressure pills.
Banned, "I live in a part of the country deignated " quite crowded" by Wadsworth Jnr..." You have to enlarge the map and look closely. The instructions are to colour in the area marked with ooo's with orange as "quite crowded".
"The Lad might get dangerous ideas such as ever more migration not being a good thing ?" I'm all for sensible immigration policies, that's why I'm in UKIP.
Bayard: "there are not many other countries with that much red in them"
Agreed. Apart from other rich areas like the rest of what was once The Hanseatic League.
BQ, it's called "heat islands", that map overlaps more or less perfectly with the "densely populated" bits or the "wealthy/productive" bits. Greenies, racists and NIMBYs are three faces of the same enemy, as far as I am concerned.
How do you create wealth ?
People creating things other people want
Therefore more people = more wealth
Great!
Anyone see Attenborough saying there are too many people in the world, so we will have to either apply birth control or let nature waste them ? Moron.
You all might like living cheek by jowl and even justify it but the blokes with lots of cash always have somewhere with walls round it and lots of room to distance them from hoi poloi.
@RS One word - food
Anonymous - only in the UK. In most of the world the countryside is for hicks. The rich have their big houses in the posh parts of the cities.
Seems my plan to turn Islay into the Hong Kong of Britain (unregulated free market community) has been extremely successful.
Grrrr. don't get me started. Eldest is currently writing an essay on J.B Priestley's An Inspector Calls to demonstrate how socialism = good thing.
Most places in the world are either too hot, too cold, too mountainous, too swampy or too infertile to be pleasant places for many people to live. In part the UK is comparatively crowded on a "per sq mile" basis simply because so much is habitable.
The UK's is like the party everyone wants to go to. Many don't have an invitation, although there are a few gatecrashers, and "friends of friends" getting through the door. That may cause the odd problem but on the whole it makes for an even more rockin' party.
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