This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday 16 August 2010
Selling the Family Silver?
The suggestion (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/aug/13/plan-sell-nature-reserves-austerity-countryside) that the UK government is considering selling off nature reserves sounds, to me, very dodgy. I appreciate that austerity seems to be the current 'buzz word' but commerce and conservation rarely fit very happily together. It also seems likely that the short-term gains will be more than counter-balanced by long-term losses. Will there be a single square metre of space that is not built upon? I also worry about the related (in the account) plan to 'privatise' the Meteorological Office at a time when 'unprecedented' (like the floods in Pakistan) climate change events may becoming the norm.
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