Brian - totally with you on housing policy like that - THAT does smell of back-handers from the building companies - or perhaps more incompetence in high places. I've dealt with incompetent so-called professionals in my former lives as a laboratory specialist and kitchen designer (in the latter, considered "not a proper job - so what do you know"). I'm not saying EVs are the solution, and undersea cobalt mining may, like fracking in this country, be killed before it ever gets going. But looking at the extent of the floods in south Yorkshire, and the rate of rainfall, I suspect you could have dredged the Don to three times its capacity all the way to the Humber, and it wouldn't have made much difference to the flooding, apart from perhaps a dangerously faster flow of floodwater across open ground. And you appear to agree, that Weather Incident Severity (I won't dare call it climate change again for fear of being labelled a Green Meanie!) is going to cost us a lot more money, - in flood prevention, fire fighting, imported food, insurance premiums etc. Sorry to be such a killjoy, but I'm sure some on here are burying their petrol-heads in the sand, and won't accept that there is anything to worry about.
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