More homes 'will boost wildlife'
Building new housing estates on farmland would actually improve the environment in many instances, English Nature told the British Association science festival. Spokesmen for the government's wildlife advisory body said intensive agriculture had driven many plants and animals out of the rural setting and sensible property development might be the best way to get them back.
Special pleading on behalf of the UK government's controversial new house-building programme. The logical alternative to the environmental problems brought about by intensive agricultural practices isn't to build houses; it's to follow traditional, non-intensive agricultural practices (or even to let the land revert to the wild). I'm not saying these houses aren't needed, but please don't use specious green arguments to try to justify building them.