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"Once we let it go" Rewilding Promo

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I give an  impassioned speech on what will happen once we let nature go from its bonds and make rewilding a reality in the UK A beautifully filmed short promo film shot at Wildwood Trust, Kent.  Producer: Luke Sutton, D.O.P Vatalii Ciobanu, Camera Op. Jack Cuckson, Edited by Jessica Harms. Watch this space for the fully edited feature coming soon...

WAR On ISIS & Syria! Let's solve it with a Land Value Tax Not Bombs!

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As the UK government is setting us on a path of war tomorrow I thought I would explore how the Syrian war started. Many commentators have speculated how a natural resource disaster may be at its roots. But what is the solution to natural resource disasters, climate change and war?  Many have documented how a drought, high temperatures and very poor regulation of water & grazing rights has led to Syrian desertification, crop failure and the displacement of 1.5Million syrians from relative wealth as farmers to poor urban dwellers and thus formed the social impulse to cause the civil war. Background Stories on this : http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2871076/overgrazing_and_desertification_in_the_syrian_steppe_are_the_root_causes_of_war.html http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/syrias-climate-conflict/ The intervention of those seeking to profit from the crisis by getting their hands on the spoils such as Saudi Arabia, France, USA, Russia & now the U...