The 630 million UK and EU citizens of what we once fondly called Europe are taxed to the eyeballs. Why? To save the environment.
Scratch the surface of this latest tax harvesting scam to understand why environmental concerns are a hoax matching that of COVID-19 and many other money reaping dodges by the political criminal class.
He cleaned a polluted river with his own hands. Then the authorities came after him.
Paul Powlesland, a British barrister, had spent years politely asking the Environment Agency to restore a neglected and heavily polluted stretch of Alders Brook in East London.
When they didn’t act, he decided to do it himself.
Together with volunteers from the River Roding Trust, Paul spent ten days removing more than 200 bags of rubbish, silt, and debris from the waterway.
The transformation was almost immediate. Fish returned. Dragonflies reappeared. Wildlife began to come back to a place that had been choked and forgotten for years.
Instead of thanks, Paul received a letter from the Environment Agency. They were investigating him for carrying out the work without a permit, an offence that can technically carry a prison sentence of up to two years.
He had simply done what the authorities had failed to do.
The story touched millions of people because it speaks to something many of us feel: the tension between rules meant to protect nature and the human instinct to protect it when no one else will.
In a positive turn, after public attention and media coverage, the Environment Agency has now dropped its threat to prosecute Paul. Yet the bigger question remains.
Should passionate people be punished for stepping in to heal the environment when official systems move too slowly, or are permits and oversight always essential, even for acts of care?
What would you have done in Paul’s place?
And where do we draw the line between necessary regulation and the simple human desire to make things better? Send us your comments
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We have so much to learn from the replacements, let’s go dump in the crap filled river and bathe.
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Its not so much the permit, its that she showed up them not addressing a problem. Last thing they want is people recognizing and addressing problems tptb arent ready to deal with. europe is further along the civilization timeline, so its had more time to get tamed and gelded. usually its hardship that has forged our peoples so we’re probably overdue for a reset.
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With a few exceptions, all levels of the occupied governments of the (((Western liberal democracies))) have, for more than a century, been purposely destroying their countries. When some sort of pollution became to great to ignore, action was taken to correct the cause. Otherwise real pollution, like this article outlines or food polluted chemicals, is ignored and fake “pollution” like climate change is pushed to make their “friends” wealthy. A local volunteer group in my city took years to get approval to clean up parts of a small river in my city. It was obvious the city itself, despite all of the yammering about the problem, was never going to do it. Funding for gay pride or other virtue signaling projects, but nothing for doing what was actually needed to be done. The delay, IMO, was that the city didn’t want the public to be shown the city was not doing its job.
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