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It’s just so unfair. I appreciate having safer roads and cleaner air, but when the achievement of this preferred reality starts to interfere with my own journeys I succumb to an enormous tantrum and demand that someone else sort it all out. This, according to Lee Waters, Wales’s deputy minister for climate change, is the defining attitude of anyone who objects to the imposition of the country’s new default 20mph speed limit. It is, apparently, nimby thinking. You know? Nimby? Not in my back yard? Or, here, not on my road or built-up district (nomrobud?). Because selfish short-sighted objectors are, according to Waters, the victims of paradoxical thinking – they want better driving conditions but they’re not prepared to pay the price.
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