In Scotland, BrewDog aimed to create a 'Lost Forest' on land they bought by planting 100,000s of trees, despite lots of natural regeneration.

Why? Because they got £690k in grants. The result? Most of the planted trees died.

It's a racket, pure + simple
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/04/14/bre…

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 It's possible for people to make a very good living doing this, but unfortunately corporations & the government hate such 'messy' forests, and it doesn't generate huge quarterly profits. Basically, the problem is that they don't want to make a living, they want to make a killing.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 I've seen it done right here in the Pacific Northwest - basically it means just taking a few trees at a time from any given acre with very long growth cycles, while allowing a natural mix of species to thrive, and leaving a few trees here and there to mature into old growth.

The Israeli state deliberately incited a war with Iran because

- its onslaught against Gaza is failing on its own terms

- global public opinion has swung decisively against Israel

- the Biden administration is under pressure

- Netanyahu faces jail when war ends

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Nature doesn’t need to be “saved”. Nature needs to be left alone

Eoghan Daltun 🌍

I respectfully disagree.

It represents a profound misunderstanding of how our relationship with nature must be if it is to survive: the opposite of domesticating, taming, anthropomorphising.

It's part of the very mindset behind turning the globe into just a human planet.

Capitalism is incompatible with a livable planet.

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Yes. And no. The biggest lack of math or reality skills ever, I have encountered in organic livestock farmers.

They refused to accept that we cannot use more land than we have if we want to be sustainable.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Same in the sea too - industrial fishing vs everyone else…

For all Lizzy fans of the anniversary of Black Rose, this is actual original artwork which I have refused to sell for huge money.
I'm skint always but I want this to stay in Dublin.
Free to any state gallery/museum in the city.
But it must be displayed free for kids. #ThinLizzy

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Is it a form of human centred narcissism? That animals only exist in the relationship to us?

What an awful world we’ve managed to make it. To live in peace seems utterly beyond us. So dreadfully sad.

Flowering wood sorrel growing amidst the mosses on rock in an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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