Storm Desmond’s floods expose the utter insanity of government policies,both in the hills and at the Paris talksIt’s as whether it had come to remind us of what’s at stake. While the climate negotiations in Paris trudge their dreary road, Storm Desmond takes a great boot to our backsides. Yet still we fail to build the connection. The news records the spectacle and ignores the implications.Flooding on this scale used to be described as a “once in 100 years”, and 200 years event. But in Cumbria,where some 30cm of rain fell in 24 hours, this is the third such catastrophe since 2005. Exceptional events are, and perhaps,no longer exceptional.
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Source: theguardian.com