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Truss's anti-environmentalism has awakened the sleeping green giant of British politics.
My new post on the #AttackOnNature:
https://t.co/qpsnrBexJ8
Jeff Bezos saying that his space trip made him appreciate the fragility of the Earth is literally the plotline to kids' book 'Dinosaurs & All That Rubbish'
An industrialist despoils the Earth to build a rocket, flies to space, finds nothing there, flies back to a rewilded Earth
Victory takes time. But after 5 years of emails, meetings, letters to councillors, rallies, beach parties with @BillOddie & direct action, we've finally saved Druridge Bay from an opencast coal mine.
This is the end of coal in the UK. @SaveDruridge
https://t.co/T1mugDiaFN
There are 48,000 acres of golf courses within London and the Metropolitan Green Belt (shown in red on map below)
Why not open them up to public for exercise, as @RosamundUrwin suggests? https://t.co/V2ioJj85yv
Easier to maintain social distancing if existing parks less crowded.
Intrigued to see that the Bowland Fells SSSI is still in 'unfavourable declining' condition.
This is part of the huge Abbeystead Estate grouse moor owned by the Duke of Westminster.
See data at https://t.co/okw3Gpheya
Rishi Sunak's constituency, Richmond (Yorks), contains at least 15 grouse moors by my reckoning (see https://t.co/xPmu7r3SxG), inc. 4 registered in offshore tax havens (Robert Miller's Gunnerside Estate, Reeth Estate, East Arkengarthdale & Saudi prince's South Walden Moor):
Access to land in England is so weird.
We have a Right to Roam over most of Dartmoor (left hand map, shown in pink), but not over MOD firing ranges.
But we have a right to wild camp over different areas, including the MOD firing ranges (right hand map, green).
Yorkshire #floods: Govt’s own flood risk strategy for River Don from *10 years ago* said changing land use in uplands would cut flood flows by 10%.
Instead, grouse moor owners have been allowed to degrade the land for the past decade. https://t.co/RvaeT07GKY
Revealed: how grouse moor estates rake in millions in public subsidies, yet degrade the environment https://t.co/HzOPoQOj0t