Julie-Ann AmosWhitecroft, ENG, Royaume-Uni
21 févr. 2020

nothing has changed.  And very few have signed.  Please share this so it gets at least some attention.  I can’t believe nobody cares, they just aren’t aware.  
The Guardian puts it rather well...

Two weeks after Storm Ciara rolled across Britain and Ireland and a week after Storm Dennis did the same, extensive parts of rural Britain remain under many feet of flood water. Heavy rains in the last 48 hours have prolonged the misery. The floods extend from Surrey to Cumbria, and from the Scottish Borders to the Welsh Marches. The counties in the Wye, Severn, Trent and Yorkshire Ouse watersheds are again hard hit. As the climate crisis deepens, such events are likely to be both increasingly common and increasingly severe.

People are extraordinarily resilient in the face of this kind of emergency. But human hardiness, community solidarity and individual kindness are not enough when floods repeatedly lay waste to homes, livelihoods, land, infrastructure and services. Ultimately it is only the state, both at local and national level, that can ensure the scale of preventive and responsive measures necessary to show that the whole nation is committed to enabling diverse ways of life to continue with reasonable security.

Faced with this week’s inundations, the state has been largely silent. These floods are a national crisis requiring national responses. Yet where has the government been when it is needed? Where is the prime minister? Who knows?

Photo is upriver from me on the River Wye

 

 

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