There’s a solidarity in a crowd of people with a shared view. Your isolated powerlessness becomes group powerlessness. If Jonathan Porrit, Emily and Amy Wilkinson, Diana Quick and TASC and SSC can’t stop Sizewell C Ltd. then I don’t feel so bad that I can’t either.
Suffolk folk are gentle folk who love nature. Witty and careful and original and playful, foraging and planting and nurturing humanity. Here people learn about the tides and care about soil erosion. They are respectful of the sea and at one with nature.
An intrusion of this magnitude damages our souls. One campaigner said this is the last stretch of unspoilt coastline in Suffolk. Felixstowe, Lowestoft all damaged. We met a man who had been at the rally taking photographs at the Pretty Road bypass junction. Ranting and raving with grief. Where I was six months ago. “You’ve got the same idea as me,” he said. He’d picked up a newspaper from RSPB Minsmere glorifying the Sandlings and the birdlife. He was going to send in photographs and show them what it’s really like.
No-one publishes photographs of tree desecration. The ITV Anglia piece had the same sanitised fantasy projection of what the four nuclear reactors will look like as the one The Guardian keeps rolling out. No sign of barbed wire, metal fences, tree stumps, acres of arable land turned into sandpits. Where are the photographers, the investigative journalists, the tree lovers of Great Britain?
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No-one supposes
emojis have noses
No-one supposes erroneously
Emojis have noses
and toeses and roses
And love hearts and wing spans and fish in the sea
ness365 