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Eco rage seems to have broken out in Holland.\u00a0 As I have blogged on before the Dutch have always seemed a civilised lot and I put this down to the high percentage of their population cycling.\u00a0 However there have been a couple of stories recently that have shown another side to the Dutch and raised doubts.\u00a0 The first is a story on reducing car parking places in the Hague.\u00a0 The council decided to reduce parking places by offering residents a chance to swap their parking permit for a free space they could do what they liked with.\u00a0 A lawn, a sunspace, somewhere to grow something…\u00a0 In return their car would be parked for free in a multi story carpark.\u00a0 Cue a furious reaction that has shown even in cycling mad Holland people are very attached to their cars with angry comments and an angry public meeting.<\/p>\n

The second bit of eco rage was over a recycling scheme.\u00a0 If you did not recycle properly you got a yellow card.\u00a0 If you continued you got a red card and your waste was not collected.\u00a0 As you can imagine the reaction in a town ironically called Best has not been good.\u00a0 Death threats have been made against the collectors and even their children.\u00a0 Whilst the scheme does seem a bit extreme the reaction has been more so.<\/p>\n

We live in angry times.\u00a0 Many of the mass shootings that take place in the US and family revenge killings in the UK seem to me not to be people who have mental problems (at least not largely) but people with anger issues who snap.\u00a0 There was a rather unconvincing article in the Guardian the other week suggesting anger goes in 50 year cycles (for this to work at least one world war had to be ignored).\u00a0 I don’t know whether we are more angry or just think in the age of the internet we can express it anonymously.\u00a0 I do think we need to calm down.\u00a0 Difficult decisions need to made by our leaders but such reactions do not help.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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