Tragically, a variety of factors over the last few thousand years have stripped Scotland of its trees. Decades as a major base of the Industrial Revolution certainly didn’t help.
“From a biodiversity perspective, Scotland is one of the most decimated countries in the world – just 2% is covered by native forests. People look at the Highlands and say ‘oh what majestic natural beauty, green grassy hills’ – well, it’s not supposed to look that way,” said Pembleton.
“You’re not supposed to have all this acreage of only grass and sheep. That’s pretty in its own way, but not as beautiful as a rainforest … that’s where the faeries come from,” Pembleton astutely pointed out.
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>It’s the statistical justification for almost all of the EPA’s regulations, which makes them the enemy of all kinds of lobbyists, from chemical manufacturers to automakers to oil and gas companies.
Funny to think of how this clashes with the MAHA stance on “natural” stuff.
> to stop operating as perverse capitalist systems
No thank you.
Climate change will be solved by technology, not by reduction in energy usage. Pricing carbon externalities would be nice. Also would have been nice to have had a functional nuclear power industry in the industrialized world for the last few decades.