tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post6856844243784413774..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Six of the Best 398Jonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-86984127500657162422013-11-18T20:58:03.003+00:002013-11-18T20:58:03.003+00:00Apologies if I've already said this (working t...Apologies if I've already said this (working too hard, not sleeping etc) but in respect of what Bella Caledonia wrote, all concerned may like to read this:<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/our-beautiful-edgelands-a-dark-light-on-the-edge-of-town-2217071.html<br /><br />I have read Monbiot's book and appreciate it a lot. At one point he debates a well-informed Welsh farmer and is given much food for thought. Of course there is a trade-off to be had but I lean more on his side of the ledger, particularly in terms of keeping or not keeping sheep on ultra-marginal land or particularly environmentally sensitive areas such as the Rest And Be Thankful area with which Bella Caledonia may be familiar.<br /><br />To an extent, simply allowing the land to go back is not true rewilding because true rewilding calls for the return of now-extinct predators, and there's obviously another tradeoff in that some returns may be unsafe or just plain unfeasible. These are dealt with in a rough draft in Feral itself.<br /><br />Not bad stuff at all, that.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.com