#ScenicSaturday 10th June 2023

On By stuartakenIn Author, Creative Writer, Nature, Photography, politics, question
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My photos here show the often-fragile beauty of our world. My hope is they will encourage viewers to act in ways that will help save it from the destruction we humans constantly cause to nature.
This one depicts the uneasy relationship between nature and farming to grow food. These hills, part of the Yorkshire Wolds, were once, as was most of Britain, forests. But woodland doesn’t provide food for millions of humans, so we removed the life-sustaining trees and carpeted the ground with cereals, often fed with environmentally harmful artificial fertilisers and poisonous sprays to deter those creatures and plants that might otherwise benefit from the land. Our greed as a species is finally being exposed for the suicidal activity it really is. There are many, especially in the worlds of business and finance, who believe we not only can but should continue to grow our population without any concern for the consequences. Such ideas clearly lack rational thought. The more people inhabiting the Earth, a finite space, the more resources will be needed to keep them alive. We really do need to curb our irrational desire for large families. Since many people will not readily volunteer for a policy allowing only ‘replacement’, the time will soon come when laws are needed to stop our growing population creating the end of our species. If we fail to control our continual expansion, nature will do it for us, and in ways over which we will have no say, choice, or control. Sorry to alarm people with this message, but it is one that must be promoted if humanity is to have any chance at all of seeing out the current century.

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I post these every Saturday, but also post one at the end of each day, with the hashtag , on FaceBook and on Twitter. Join me there if you wish.

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13 thoughts on “#ScenicSaturday 10th June 2023”

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    1. Yes, Scotland was once almost completely carpeted in trees. Now there’s more grouse moors to allow the ‘gentry’ to shoot wild birds as a form of ‘sport’, though where there’s any sport in firing a gun at a harmless bird I’ve yet to discover.

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        1. Thank you for that, Lynette. Interesting site. It’s such a tragedy that so many mature trees are being consumed in wildfires now. They will take decades to replace, if ever, and their contribution to helping fight climate change is inevitably fundamentally reduced in the meantime.

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          1. We are facing a crisis, really. As you likely know, we are being hit by enormous forest fires. The fire fighters are describing them as hotter, faster and denser than they have experienced in the past. The exploitation of our forests with the clear cutting and reforestation (the trees are weaker and more susceptible to bugs) is now forcing us to face the consequences, even if we still have politicians who are burying their heads. Ugh.

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            1. And this sort of event is increasing worldwide. Similarly, politicians the world over are still in the pockets of big business and not listening to the warnings from concerned scientists and citizens. And, as ever, the consequences impact most severely and urgently on everyone but those who commit the climate offences.

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