Let's do the More or Less thing. Is that a big number?
- England has a land area of just over 13,046,000 hectares ^https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/land-use-in-england-2022/land-use-statistics-england-2022^
- 215,000 / 13,046,000 = 1.6% of England we're talking about here.
I'm big on environmentalism and regenerating England's natural habitats, but trading a percent or so of total land area to ensure people have homes seems like a no brainer. Ideally we'd build higher density to avoid having to continue suburban sprawl, but any homes > perfect homes that are never built.
I bet that information has become dated incredibly fast, but I don't know in which direction. Iran's Supreme Leader seems pretty keen on lashing out wildly following the events of the last month or two, but also they've had significant loss of military assets and local capability. Does that put us at more of a risk of terrorist-style attacks?