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I agree, however the facts are that there has been repeated flooding in last 3 years whereas historically it has occurred infrequently as a consequence of the 1 every 50 year events. The council in N Somerset and UK Govt can spend as much time naval gazing about climate change as it wants, the...

Sure we did historically but surely in modern times we don't have to limit ourselves to the high ground because we now possess the ability to engineer solutions. There are many places around the world where unsuitable land has been made habitable or suitable for agriculture, parts of Holland...

I would tend to agree however, in this case many years of Govt ignorance and incompetence has lead to the current predicament in Somerset. The area is like New Orleans and parts of Holland, so it needs managing in order to prevent floods and this happened successfully over previous centuries...