Upon a time rode bike up harrow hill
Divorced father tyke in tow
Before car, truck, huge truck expand footprint
It was possible however ludicrous
People honk exhaust so what
Tortoise has a hut hid by trees
No rush to lazy boy frozen dinner cable
Bit by bit that creeps in
Hard work showers dividends
Car leads to truck leads to bigger truck
Hired hands more work follows
Hands come go tyke sprouts tall drives
Now it's they who pass
In haste right-of-way luddites or worse
The poor, under a steaming hood
As others zoom towards beach or
Whale carcass awaiting demolition
Read about on break
Contrivances now beckon expansion
Shell now two- headed deliberates
Go to town
Bring it to you
Calculate costs benefits on superficial level
Ecology nice but seminar so far away
What's a million pounds of gravel
Put it over there on the scraped hillside
What seems possible seeks advisable
Build it they will come i say
What wrong in that
Close books on quaint, expect
Expect what just opinion
Soon after a gathering new people visit
Friends of friends dogs of friends
Road dumps them at pavement end
Spill out over meadow and verdure
Dog attack sheep pregnant sheep live here
Road ends, expect that
Invite expectation get surprised
It's not some park with printed rules
It's a refuge from town
Build it, town will visit
Throw some cash for damage
Exhaust rises to blot sky but not ours
Traffic was bad
says traffic
Hindsight wistfully bloviates
NW suburbia utopia
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"the Lake District’s 673,000 sheep comprise 90% of medium-sized mammal biomass, with wild mammals representing 3%.
Schofield calls sheep farming “both ecologically catastrophic and economically precarious”,
"the word “sheep” appears 357 times in the Lake District’s 716-page nomination document, far exceeding mentions of other traditional livestock."
"The Unesco designation celebrates the Lake District as a “cultural landscape” shaped by traditional agro-pastoral farming, with sheep farming a central part of its identity. "
"David Morris, of the bird and wildlife conservation charity RSPB, endorsed the report’s claims. He said the designation
“has been misused to protect probably some of the most ecologically damaging
and economically loss-making agriculture practices in the English uplands”.
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"Cullinan, who is based in South Africa and was once an anti-apartheid activist,
achieved recognition for his work fighting, often successfully,
for legal systems to recognise the rights of rivers, forests and things “other than human beings”
so they could be defended in court cases.
The idea of giving species and places legal “personhood”, outlined in his 2002 book, Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice, became part of a wider global movement recognising rights of nature and animals."
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