@randahl shocking: Thames Water "In November 2023, it was estimated that the company had poured at least 72 billion liters of sewage into the Thames, England’s longest river, since 2020"
And as I learned last year it is all due to the privatization of this sector. Profit before public health and safety. All due to the neoliberal politics that were introduced.
We see it also in the Netherlands that this is introducing undesired behavior and effects. E.g. In the decrease of service in public transport and even the energy sector. Some functions are simply better off in the public sector. But that takes a truely social and democratic governamental view…
@randahl Isn't it odd that the country with the history of the worst outbreak of cholera Britain still has the same problem of untreated waste water. other countries have solved this problem, but they don't want to, I suppose.
@jramskov The water quality at the beaches in Denmark is quite good actually. Denmark ranks 5th in the EU, and as this graph shows, the poor water quality beaches are in decline (orange curve), while the high quality beaches are on the rise (green curve).
@taatm I wonder if the UK could have a green revolution like Denmark experienced with the party called The Alternative. They had a landslide election in 2015 and got 9 seats in parliament, because other parties have been asleep for decades. Now every party wants to be the green party, which is a good thing.
@randahl I think it’s possible for Green to become a protest vote instead of Lib Dem’s. Frustratingly, past governments that should have, did not bring in preferential voting, so you vote under basically a two party system.
You vote for a main party to stop ‘the other lot’ from getting in. Anything in the liberal spectrum dilutes the left vote and lets the right in and visa versa.