When a ring road through our local Lammas Meadows was proposed twenty or thirty years ago, we pushed aside our Terence Conran muesli porringers and went out to start protesting, and for once protesting worked. That’s how I remember it anyway, and the meadows are still there. Traditional Lammas meadows, where commoners have the right to graze livestock from Lammas to Candlemas, and the owners of rights on the ancient strips grow hay between Candlemas and Lammas, are very rare, and those east of the city are extensive. They are an important historical survival claimed by some to have origins in the Bronze Age, and a rare habitat, most of these precious meadows having been destroyed as a matter of official policy after the Second World War. The results were called ‘improved grassland’.
Where are the ecologists in all this and what are they saying? The idea that you can break the chain of life and put a starter pack somewhere entirely different with a totally different potential ecology due to soil, terrain, climate differences let alone on different bird migration paths is beyond stupid.
I want to know who made the algorithm….it cannot have been ecologists and where are all the ecologists critiques of the ‘Thing’? Thanks once again for penning the pain.
bloody terrifying.
Where are the ecologists in all this and what are they saying? The idea that you can break the chain of life and put a starter pack somewhere entirely different with a totally different potential ecology due to soil, terrain, climate differences let alone on different bird migration paths is beyond stupid.
I want to know who made the algorithm….it cannot have been ecologists and where are all the ecologists critiques of the ‘Thing’? Thanks once again for penning the pain.