Originally Posted by
IainR
So we have millions of people with no respect for the environment...
Look at NZ? An environmentally aware public.
We can have your way. Very few have access to the countryside, discourage.. (which it isnt), and then what? keep polluting.. be fat unfit, we pay high taxes?
We can easily sustain more people in the enviornment and infact probably need to if our rural communities are to have an industry. One thing pisses me off is people in cities on good wages saying there should be no commercial races.
Look at how much races like Always Aim High bring into Snowdonia? Areas like llanberis and llandudno or Betws have lost the traditional tourism, Adventure tourism is their future. Farming is dying, quarrying is dying. You may ot like it but an increasing income and jobs for the locals comes from the mountain biking, the climbing, the gorges, the kayaking, the zip wires.. the mass participation events.
If not what will happen?
Huge areas of the UK left unused? Or would we use them for wind farms? after all if noone is using them who will protest against them being used up for wind farms?