Wednesday 3 July 2013

Feral by George Monbiot

This inspiring book was worth waiting for. It complements the work of Mark Fisher by providing a positive and uplifting vision of what a rewilded landscape could give to the people who visit it once the dessicated  bureaucracy of the current dead conservatism of wildlife conservation has been swept away along with its addiction to farming and subsidies. It would be marvellous if that could happen easily of course and it's Monbiot's gift that when reading his book we believe with him that it's not just possible but just round the corner.

Some of us have waited a long time for this issue to be projected into the public arena. The vested interests even  those in public bureaucracies who prefer a quiet life and resent challenge have been anxious to avoid discussion of these issues and they have been supported in numerous ways by the farming/landowning/game shooting interests. Now this has been brought out into the open and we just have to see if it will be followed up with a level of public interest that's enough to get things moving.

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