Ash Brown

This is the sense that I’m getting yeah

The point that I’m trying to make is that there are many ways to produce food, and some farming systems are vastly better for biodiversity and other environmental indicators than others. But most of the farms that I see around me are chemical monocultures

There are many ways in which farms can be very biodiverse. I do not see them on my drives around the country. I see bare fields with one species of grass.

On the whole it’s caused a massive decline. Examples of farming being beneficial for biodiversity are rare. It is totally possible though to have a biodiverse farming system. That’s what I want to see more of.

But farming hasn’t been done the same way for that time, so the parameters of what a farm ecosystem is and therefore how much biodiversity is ‘appropriate’ is not a fixed thing. It’s hugely variable.

Industrial farmland is not teeming with life. Come off it. Intensification of agriculture is the number 1 reason for massive biodiversity decline in this country.

Evidence from research carried out by Imperial College London. Also, ‘farmland’ is not a fixed ecosystem type. How and what you choose to farm has a huge influence on the biodiversity and therefore ecosystem function of the land.

The more biodiversity there is the better the ecosystem functions. You are insisting the low levels of life is fine because the way that you are choosing to farm creates land that can’t support much life.

Imagine even just reducing meat and dairy enough to free up even a quarter of this. The JOY it would bring. The meaningful reconnection of local cultures to place and nature.

The beauty of Fingle Bridge in winter. Living close to ecosystems like this feels essential to me.

Yes obviously. What I’m meaning is that having as many species as possible within a particular ecosystem matters. And land that is being used for farming in the UK could be so much more species rich than it currently is, most of the time.

Im not understanding you.

Because biodiversity is essential for the proper functioning of our ecosystems that underpin the liveability of our planet?! Maybe??

I would love to see the data of the number of species that can live in a place like this. Do you have that data?

Nothing! It’s a green barren wasteland.

It’s been a toxic brand now to me. I do not want anything to do with anything that he’s created or involved in.

I just deleted Facebook. It’s become a toxic environment. Hopefully more and more people will use this platform instead.

SO, my passions are restoring nature. Who’s with me?

Happy to be here! So long, Elon Musk.