Diamond Dogs is now a reality

Desmond1979 said:

I saw a huge field inundated with Solar Panels.

The opposite.

Saving us from dystopia. 

We've got a few round here, some people really hate them as they see it as industrialisation of a rural landscape, but they're mostly people who dont' realise that the countryside has always been industrial to a greater or lesser extent. It's not and never has been all roling countryside and a few sheep and cows on a hillside.

The ones round here often have sheep grazing around them, so the farmer gets an extra crop, electicity as well as wool and meat.

Hardly any of our countryside's is natural.

After the ice age, once the north sea filled, there were only something like 30 woody plant species.

We should be mostly broadleaf forest with stinging nettles and brambles in the south. Higher areas maybe more bracken.

Open areas are only there due to grazing, most of which was introduced or farmed.

Hardly any of our countryside's is natural.

After the ice age, once the north sea filled, there were only something like 30 woody plant species.

We should be mostly broadleaf forest with stinging nettles and brambles in the south. Higher areas maybe more bracken.

Open areas are only there due to grazing, most of which was introduced or farmed.

It's is so sad isn't it,

• field are green deserts, especially as it's full of herbicide, pesticide so essentially a death trap,
• Britain is one of the worst countries in the world for deforestation 
• HS2 saw the cutting down of ancient forests that had been untouched including a tree that had been voted the most beautiful in Britain
• the badgers are being persecuted to extinction despite the scientific evidence saying it's not helping farmers,
• the 'natural' borders are filled with half tame gamebirds in mass numbers which further devastate and compete with native wildlife,
• the birds of prey they try reintroduce go 'missing' in these gamebird areas, 
• even if they do this illegally there is no enforcement (I had a wildjustice email this morning with a very disappointing example)
• Intensive Forestry is further dead areas, as there is very little life can survive under these fast growing trees, that are the only trees that can't speak to each other with fungal networks (this was read in a secret life of trees book) 
• The seas aren't much better as they are devastated by trawling, videos of what it looks like are great wrenching
• The rivers which we had cleaned up are allowed to be turned into sewage cesspits.
• I don't know what the impact of solar panels will be, but I saw a study once on how dragonflies were mistaking the polarised light for reflected light from ponds, and I wish more studies were done to find out and then try mitigate any issues.

Most of the info is from wildjustice whom I support as they try to legally challenge our government systems and hold them accountable, so have evidenced them carefully for use in a court of law. I have not mentioned other things that I don't have the adequate research for.

Sometimes I despair and how selfish humans are to the natural world and just want to cry.

And then we have red squirrels in the garden this year and hedgehogs as everyone in the village supports them, and I think of how much we could do if we just stopped and looked and listened and did something to help.