To me the issue is really consumer culture. If you have a densely populated area where households own multiple large cars, pave over gardens to park them, drive

To me the issue is really consumer culture. If you have a densely populated area where households own multiple large cars, pave over gardens to park them, drive them on ancient narrow lanes etc, that seems to me a big cause of nature destruction. And extending houses to have space for all sorts of possessions that are of doubtful value, or could be shared with others. There surely are far more densely populated areas than SE England in poorer countries that just don't have financial means to destroy nature to the same extent. There's a council estate a couple miles from where I live that has some reputation of being "troubled", "unsafe" etc, but to walk around it is quite pleasant, it has far less traffic, far more trees and bushes in gardens, due to being poor. Frankly a lot more birds singing there. To me the answer is if we all try to live rather more simply in terms of consumption.