An Excuse Waiting to be Used

No disaster happens in vain provided it can be used to justify another disaster. Mere weeks after poisoning residents of a Devon town, the forward-looking moisture provision entrepreneurs who own South West Water are consolidating their next excuse with all the efficiency of a minister for rah-rah invoking World War II in aid of World War III. Since climate scientists have warned for a mere few decades about the consequences of global heating, the wealth creators at Pennon Group have suddenly discovered that climate change will bring both increased moisture provision (floods, storms) and increased demand (heat-waves, droughts), besides creating a congenial environment for parasites, pathogens and profiteers. With the co-operation of a government dedicated to rolling back the green crap, the wages of several decades' trading of national infrastructure for boardroom profits can handily be blamed upon the filthy coal-burning habits of the Maldives or the Heathen Chinee, and Pennon will not be hung out to dry.