>>1104991These were me and I'm back. The UK has it hard because very few political forces are actively protecting the wilds. British conservatives are responsible for the majority of environmental ruin by parcelling and selling common land and oppose and sort of land protection, preferring to allow their corporate backers to pollute with impunity. While the larger power of the EU curbs some of the worst effects with regulation (the Tory government campaign for years and spent literally millions of pounds fighting for the right of farmers to dump slurry in rivers only to be blocked by the European courts), it too has a really shitty view of conservation that largely on protects farmland, especially tradional farmland that is actually shitty /out/ material. Labour don't give a fuck and will side with farmers too. Even the green party have a bewildering lack of interest in actual wilderness, and just focus on green power and quinoa or whatever, 99% of their support comes from urbanites with no actually experience with nature.
The only real allies of the /out/side are fringe re-wilding and environmental groups with no real traction who are constantly demonised by the press who are mainly shills at this point.
I'm not a political animal by nature, I don't give a fuck about immigrants or civil rights, I don't care about the NHS or my taxes, the to and fro of left and right and nationalism and globalism is as tedious as they are ineffectual. What I do demand is that the land that I live on and enjoy is not utterly fucked up because some politicians mate owns a sheep farm.
