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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by an9n on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:53AM (#29201484)
> Angry man against immigration: threatens to emigrate.

Bit of a weak and snarky straw man, friend. I'm absolutely not against immigration - what I am against is immigration to the UK, and any other already overcrowded place for that matter, when it necessarily results in destruction of the environment else destruction of quality of life for the population. Pod life will be miserable (intentionally miserable?) when it comes.

I agree with you on the ruling classes - who are ethnically distinct from and apparently contemptuous of the indigenous population, dating back to Norman times.

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by Symbiote on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:12PM (#29202617)
Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands, which is even more crowded than the UK.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977602

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by an9n on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:54AM (#29226355)
Temporarily, for work, somewhat forced due to wanting to make enough money to be able to afford to buy a house in the (overpriced due to overpopulation) UK housing market, and I lived in a (relative) pod, used public transport etc. etc. But well down Sherlock for your bloodhound-like skills.
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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by boogies on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:17PM (#29206770)
> Yet you emigrated (at some point) to the Netherlands,

unless born there

> which is even more crowded than the UK

at least for now (0.37% growth vs. 0.48).

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by Angostura on Friday November 12, 2021 @07:11PM (#29206047)
It'sprobably better that people emigrate to the UK with its relevatively impoverished forest cover and relieve pressure on countries with better preserved ecology.

Or are you against people moving from the countryside to London too?

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by zamfi on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:27PM (#29202000)
> what I am against is immigration to the UK, and any other already overcrowded place for that matter

Ah, so you'd like emigrate...off the Earth? /s

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by ticviking on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:57PM (#29203855)
That seems an ideal solution long term.

Short term I think we have to find a way to allow more sustainable small multi-polar village life happen so we don’t all crowd into the same dozen or so mega-cities on the planet

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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by slyall on Friday November 12, 2021 @05:21PM (#29205230)
Those mega cities are a lot better for the environment than villages or suburbs.
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Re:London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming ... by an9n on Monday November 15, 2021 @06:55AM (#29226362)
I guess people made similar wisecracks about people moving to the US (for similar reasons of liberty, QOL etc.) back in the day.
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