"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle" Stan Dunn

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Date: 05 November 2003 15:35:42

According to The Times today "Air pollution is not an issue at Stansted because the countryside around the Essex airport is sparsely populated".

I'm quite pleased that Heathrow is unable to expand by adding (yet another) runway. Sadly they have decided that the only feasible option is to add one to Stansted Airport (due to European anti-pollution law) circa 2018.

I have a theory.

People expand. I mean, whatever the space we are given, we always (not unlike water) expand to fit it- and then we demand more. I'm sure that if the powers that be just said "Nope. Sorry. No more airport space.", then we'd just deal with it and that would be that. Surely no further noxious gases and noise pollution is a good thing

Somehow, though, some bright sparks who want to go further, for longer, for less money, with more convenience and do it all better than everybody else seem to have the idea that yet another strip of tarmac is a good idea.

I feel that Western Humankind is going just a touch off the rails at times. All this hankering after bigger! better! faster! just adds to the turmoil and increasing (and I think unhealthy) bustle of lives already being drowned by the white noise of advertising, peer pressure, spiritual pressures, politics, economics, television, the need for success and acceptance...

Stop the world! We need to get off and rethink some of our more narcissistic tendencies and just chill out.