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"ANCIENT HEDGEROWS, which tend to be those which support the greatest diversity of plants and animals, are generally defined as those which were in existence before the Enclosure Acts, passed mainly between 1720 and 1840 in Britain." https://lnkd.in/ehWUhtW View in LinkedIn

"MAGNETIC MATERIALS naturally exist with extreme magnetic permeability values ranging from zero - superconductors - to effectively infinity - ferromagnets -, through many intermediate values. Metamaterials built from different combinations of them have enabled the realization of magnetic cloaks and other devices for shaping magnetic fields." https://lnkd.in/erp7QhY View in LinkedIn

"HEDGEROWS provide the framework of the English countryside. In the form in which we know them in Britain, hedgerows exist in only a handful of other spots around the world...By providing abundant cover, hedgerows have made England's wildlife richer by far than that of other lands." https://lnkd.in/eEGs6ZT View in LinkedIn

CATALONIA, by contrast, is still heavily forested, uses traditional crop rotation, and has left great areas of dense cane hedgerows intact. However, the EU legislation stripped Catalonia of livestock. Let Britain be a canary. View in LinkedIn

HALF OF EVERYTHING. "60% of over 3,000 species studied in the UK have declined over the past 50 years." https://lnkd.in/e8YUWEr View in LinkedIn

THIS CONCLUDES the section on the perilous state of UK's natural abundance. Some EU countries (like France) appear to have done worse with areas of giant industrial fields and record chemical use. View in LinkedIn

HACKATHON. "Among the compulsory standards in the GAEC rules is "avoiding the encroachment of unwanted vegetation on agricultural land". What this means is that if farmers want their money they must stop wild plants from returning. They don't have to produce anything: to keep animals or to grow crops there." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

INCENTIVE. "The major funding that farmers receive is called the single farm payment, which is money given by European taxpayers to people who own land. To receive it, they must keep the land in what is called "Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition" (GAEC). It's a term straight out of 1984." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

MADNESS. "But this is where the madness kicks in: much of the habitat destruction for which farm policies are responsible has little or nothing to do with producing food." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn

MORE MOUTHS. "You could argue that an intensification of farming is a response to rising population pressure: the need to produce more food has caused greater damage to wildlife." https://lnkd.in/eiqJUcg View in LinkedIn