So What Matters?

Further to the post Who Asked Them? How can it be that a nature reserve could possibly put wildlife  as a lower priority than human concerns? Nobody can be in any doubt that management here is driven by money. Some don't seem to have noticed that wild animals don't use money so have no understanding of farm subsidies. Where are the people who make these decisions and why don't they defend them? One can only assume they have no confidence in what they are doing so hide away pretending nobody's asked the question.

I remember the meeting when a group of us were asked how the economy could be served by the Sheffield Moors? My contribution was clear and I think forthright: we need places which are free from all considerations of the economy; we get enough of that in our jobs and it's vital that we can get right away from work and business and the economy. Notes were written up later and distributed summarising people's comments. Mine were left out. Ideas like those I expressed are not particularly radical or absurd and many people agree. But they frighten these managers so much that they pretend they've not heard them. What cowards.