nigelswift wrote:
tomwatts wrote:
...If we take Littlestone's thoughts to their logical conclusion, then all mankind's earthworks should be removed, and the land left fallow...
I don't think there's a case for applying the principle to everything that gets done, only to some things. It's not an exact science but slag heaps are pretty universally considered blots on the landscape aren't they (?) so they seem prime candidates for applying the "polluter pays" principle. It's a better principle than "I'll make it look like a goddess to avoid the full expense of doing what I ought to" IMO. Fly tippers shouldn't be allowed to pile their litter into an artistic form. ;)
There are a few, what are laughingly called, landfills around this area...the purpose of a landfill, I thought was to fill a hole in the ground...usually with the excess human detritus that doesn't rot for a thousand years...but there are now new hills formed where no hills existed before or at least not in human memory(one prime example is glaringly obvious on the A24 from Kingsfold into Horsham.....I have a feeling that one such new landscape has covered over two "listed"(on old maps) tumulii near Storrington too...I haven't investigated but I noticed a "new hill" on (or at least perilously close to)the site, whilst driving past quite recently.
