From Wimbledon to Whitewebbs: what happens when a multimillion-pound sporting organisation takes ownership of your local park? Spoiler alert: nothing good
Thank you for sharing, these are important stories!
There's something about how when organisations accumulate capital they need to put it somewhere and often that means putting into ecologically devastating projects like these. It's built into the nature of capital that it has to expand like this.
Apart from the courts, and petitions, what other kinds of resistance are available to us? And what would it mean to transform the logic of the economic system that insists on organisations like this expanding to survive?
Simply because it's the same here - money and development ahead of the environment. My blood pressure rises in consequence. I wish all those who are battling to save green space the best of luck. Governments never listen.
Dan, thank you for highlighting this extremely important and disturbing issue. As you rightly say these community green spaces must be kept for the very people they were designed for not to mention all the good they do, as you so eloquently describe in your article, for the planet and wildlife. Sadly, it all comes down to money and whoever has the biggest wallet will win. I just hope and pray that the residents of both of these communities can fight to save these parcels of land from being developed and destroyed forever. Has anyone started one of those petitions that after attaining so many signatures it is presented to 10 Downing Street? Or is that tantamount to asking a drug dealer to clean our streets of drugs? I hope not. Let the people be heard and let’s save these precious spaces to be used for the communities they were intended for and not just a chosen (elite) few.
Thank you for sharing, these are important stories!
There's something about how when organisations accumulate capital they need to put it somewhere and often that means putting into ecologically devastating projects like these. It's built into the nature of capital that it has to expand like this.
Apart from the courts, and petitions, what other kinds of resistance are available to us? And what would it mean to transform the logic of the economic system that insists on organisations like this expanding to survive?
I am so riled! And i live in Australia!
Simply because it's the same here - money and development ahead of the environment. My blood pressure rises in consequence. I wish all those who are battling to save green space the best of luck. Governments never listen.
Dan, thank you for highlighting this extremely important and disturbing issue. As you rightly say these community green spaces must be kept for the very people they were designed for not to mention all the good they do, as you so eloquently describe in your article, for the planet and wildlife. Sadly, it all comes down to money and whoever has the biggest wallet will win. I just hope and pray that the residents of both of these communities can fight to save these parcels of land from being developed and destroyed forever. Has anyone started one of those petitions that after attaining so many signatures it is presented to 10 Downing Street? Or is that tantamount to asking a drug dealer to clean our streets of drugs? I hope not. Let the people be heard and let’s save these precious spaces to be used for the communities they were intended for and not just a chosen (elite) few.