Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Nature in crisis: landmark report reveals plummeting British wildlife" video.

  1. More laughable coverage by CH4. Lord Goldsmith could fund the entirety of the changes he wants out of his own bank account, and still live comfortably for generations. It's always the out of touch elites who push these things at the expense of everyone else. It's always so interesting how CH4 want to keep issues that are deeply interconnected, separate. In typical activist mentality they want all the things, even though they contradict each other. Immigration is deeply linked to the destruction of the environment. Britain is an island, and as such there is only so much room on the island. As you increase population, there is as a function of physical existence less room for wilderness. There are only so many things that can physically fit and something has to give. Industrial farming is required to support that massive population. When governments subsidise unprofitable farming, that is not a success. Farming has to be profitable for it to be worthwhile, otherwise you're just engaging in market manipulation which impacts exports and makes continued farming lose it's value. Perhaps more importantly you can't get the same yield. That farming does of course have an environmental impact. You can't expect to feed all of those people and not have a negative environmental impact. You can't expect to regulate out the harmful practices of farming and still expect to feed all of those people. It's basic physics and no amount of mental gymnastics can change that. It's a similar story with the water systems. We're talking about systems designed in the victorian era to accommodate 8 million (the max the UK can naturally support mind you) being used by some 67 million people. Fixing that, without even considering cost would take decades to physically achieve, be obsolete upon completion and still fail to protect the environment. In fact more environment would be destroyed updating the systems than is being damaged by it now. So let's be very clear on rhe science. There are too many people. Too many people in the UK, too many people in the world more broadly. It has been clear on this point since 1962, and every IPCC report since it's inception in '87 states the same. All of these issues, environmental, social, economic, political ,they're all deeply linked to each other. If you genuinely want ro help the environment there is a very simple thing you can do to help. Don't have children. Encourage others in your life to do the same. A single persons contribution in this way can have big outcomes for our world. Stop supporting illegal immigration too. If you don't, then it's simple. More wild lands will need to be destroyed to make homes for them. More intensive industrial farming will be required to feed them. More overflows will occur because more people will be utilising the systems. More mining will be required to provide resources and products for them to consume. They'll produce even more waste that can't be recycled and net zero will become ever more creative accounting whilst the world continues to burn.
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