Hi @georgemonbiot.bsky.social It isn’t natural forests that are tinder-dry and burning in Scotland. The Scottish Gamekeepers Association, NatureScot and the Scottish Greens all fail to suggest closing the shooting estates and returning the land to forest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The Scottish Greens are pro-shooting?
The article doesn’t quote him saying anything against shooting or saying anything in favour of restoring nature (trees, etc) to the land. Perhaps he is in favour of these things, but perhaps not. The Gamekeepers are powerful; their employers more so.
I often think the same thing when reading articles on flooding where there is no mention of returning rivers to a more natural state of reducing subsidised sheep farming on upland river catchments
In other words let’s focus solely on climate change (which is hard locally to do anything about and so no action takes place) instead of what locals could do which is within their power to lessen it’s effects
Ugh! Of course it is! These people will never learn.
I wonder how many started as controlled burns on grouse moors? I wonder how many wildfires not found on grouse moors are started by gamekeepers to pretend that controlled burning is the only way to prevent it?
