Peter Smith

Two recent reports, George Monbiot’s #LandForTheMany  and Chris Packham’s #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife sub report "Where there’s muck there’s brass: revealing the billions hidden in farmland tax shelters” , published today, have started highlighting the economics of land and wildlife destruction. Miles King - has investigated some of the more obvious tax breaks that  farmers get that are incentivising natures destruction in the People Need Nature Report - See here:  https://anewnatureblog.com/2019/06/28/farmland-tax-breaks-revealed/ But the journey these leading figures in wildlife protection have gone down, and the many authors they have drawn together, is still not fully complete.  Both reports have highlighted how we are destroying our planet because our current tax and subsidy systems gives incentives to people to kill our wildlife, pollute and use land and natural resources inefficiently. My personal campaign for the last 20 years has been to highlight ...

“MPs are voting today to commit to reducing Britain's CO2 emissions to 'net zero'. The cost is likely to be more than £1 trillion. Ministers say an impact assessment is not required.” So, says spam Facebook posts from dodgy think tanks spamming my social media feeds today. Their slickly produced videos have pictures of nurses and doctors with an ominous title spelling out how many doctors and nurse £1 Trillion would pay for. View more of the 'Global Warming Policy Forum's' drivel here:  https://www.facebook.com/pg/theGWPF/videos/ They are trying to scare people into being frightened of tackling a global climate catastrophe and it works judging by the comments.   But such futile trade-offs and false dichotomies are at the heart of tackling all societies problems, whether it is saving wildlife, helping people with physical and mental health problems or educating our children. Its all fundamentally a load of old bollocks! But unfortunately, mo...