We can count hard cash, but what is the value of beauty? | Simon Jenkins

In planning, defenders of nature are 'nimbies', opponents 'vandals'. To end the shouting match we need a new language

Where to bury nuclear waste? It must be in impermeable rock and "for ever". One community, Copeland district, welcomes it, but its higher tier authority, Cumbria, says no. Meanwhile the energy minister, Ed Davey, wants to put up lots of wind turbines, while the environment minister, Owen Paterson, does not. The transport secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, wants to drive a high...