"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"
A philosophy that seems to be lost on the pale, stale, male boomers running the world currently.
www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...
On many issues relating to public health, safety & prevention of harm (alcohol, smoking, junk food) Chris's world view is that governments shouldn't be nanny states, regardless of how many lives may be impacted or even lost.
Yet when it comes to wildlife, he becomes the epitome of a nanny himself.
Christopher Snowdon (one of the heads of the IEA) has form when it comes to attacking species reintroduction, wolves in particular. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Obviously, discussion of the Iran war has focused mostly on the humanitarian impacts. But it's also worth noting that the war, and the socioeconomic disruption that it brings to the country, could be the final nail in the coffin of the Asiatic cheetah.
www.oneearth.org/can-iran-sav...
I mean putting aside basic humanity & general emapthy for your fellow human beings, this seems like an issue that is absolutely connected to environment & climate change. But what do I know.
"...foreign issues like Palestine, at the expense of concern for the environment & climate change..."
Yes because bombing a single region relentlessly for years has nothing whatsoever to do with environment or climate change.
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2596772...
'Migratory species face rising extinction risk…
Almost half of the world’s migratory species populations protected under a major UN wildlife treaty are now in decline …conservation efforts are struggling to keep pace with mounting environmental pressures.'
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/migrato...
✅ Predation dropped from up to 25 yaks a year to nearly zero.
🪵 Use of bamboo and wooden posts for traditional fencing and repairs reduced by up to 95% for an individual herder.
Herders highlight improved well-being, including better sleep due to reduced fear of livestock loss.
“Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
“A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn't have a budget issue--it has a values issue."
A billion dollars a day going towards the war in Iran so far.
Large carnivores & herbivores are great for exposing the lens in which many see conservation through.
Are we truly motivated by custodianship, nature connectedness & coexistence for all our wildlife?
Or are we motivated by capitalism? And any species that threatens that in any way isn't tolerated?
But we were told that the average Reform voter is just a salt of the earth decent guy with genuine grassroots concerns?
Who knew it was actually just the same old bigoted boomers it's always been.
Very true. At the very least there's still a common mindset that large herbivores & carnivores still belong (somewhere) within these landscapes. In large swathes of the UK that mindset is practically considered a hate crime towards agriculture.
I can only imagine how Indigenous people feel reading shit like this all the time. Thousands of years of nature connectedness, viewing ecosystems as sacred & wildlife as kin.
Then these guys come along, almost wipe out everything, then pat themselves on the back for not quite finishing the job.
Following several centuries of ecocide, driven by capitalism, ecological domination & colonial violence, the European settlers had the "best idea" to maybe not continue doing that in a few scattered remnants of wilderness that remained.
"The introduction of STR06 is expected to be a milestone for the region. She is intended to be a mate for the resident male tiger, STR03 (Baji)."
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
Turns out there is a political appetite for something other than demonising minorities & boot-licking billionaires. Well done to all. 💚
Boomers might have made everything shit and expensive, but have we considered that we might be stopping them from taking two cruises a year instead of one???
Yeah I'm very skeptical about this. It seems labour's motivation here is to appear "greener than the Greens" on environmental issues.
I'm a huge advocate for native species reintroduction, but if the incentive here is impulsive political spite, then I'm put off immediately.
We have betrayed the young. It's no wonder they are flocking to the green party
Woah. Are they finally getting something?
Ps it's not just young people.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
@wolfieprof.bsky.social Your book is on my Christmas list! It sounds amazing 👏
The Big Bad Wolf is Afraid of You. Fascinating experiment on wild wolves in Poland. By me for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...
"Human coexistence with wolves although not innocent of violence was a lived reality... and crucially not shaped by capitalist stakes. Seeing the wolf as kin or equal allows us to perceive the wolf, from the outset, with respect, as opposed to fear..."
"Wolves as cohabitants of human-occupied landscapes did not fit within European frameworks of civilization and progress. They thus had to be removed through the abundance of violence, direct and indirect, that is characteristic of set-
tler colonialism."
www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Such a good paper. Whilst it focuses on settler colonialism in the US in relation to land & predator management, it just as easily applies to the UK & much of Western Europe. Which is ofc the head office of colonialism. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"Settler colonialism isn't just a form of domination over human beings; it's a form of ecological domination & violence. Settlers & their institutions determine what belongs on the land & move to eliminate/highly control beings considered pests or predators.."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Funny what people reserve their outrage for.
A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood?
B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane?
Decisions, decisions ....
🐺 #Wolf - We don't think today's COREPER decision to delist #Wolves in the Bern Convention is right. Shooting this key species will not solve coexistence challenges. And: we cannot afford messing up with the #HabitatsDirective - many other tasks waiting. We i.a. need a #RestoreNature Fund!
