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The #HS2 protesters are heroes. HS2 is the Concorde of the 21st Century: a money-guzzling, carbon-pumping white elephant that - if it ever comes to fruition - will serve the rich at everyone else's expense. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/29/tipping-point-why-swampy-thinks-hs2-tunnel-protest-can-change-climate-fight
I suspect that as the business case for HS2 becomes ever more absurd, the project will eventually be abandoned, but not before many £bns have been spent, and more precious habitats destroyed. The protesters are speaking truths that even the government will one day have to hear.
From the beginning, you had to believe several impossible things to justify #HS2, as I explained here, when it was costed at a mere £25bn. Now you also have to believe that long distance business transport across the UK will return to pre-pandemic levels. https://www.monbiot.com/2010/05/17/fast-train-to-nowhere/
Like the rest of the business and environmental case for the railway, this belief relies on magical thinking.
