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What’s kinda poignant is that there was one tree left where there should be a forest, and you’re directed to feel angry when it is cut down
by jibbit 3y ago
What’s kinda poignant is that there was one tree left where there should be a forest, and you’re directed to feel angry when it is cut down
- dukeyukey 3y agoMuch of the UK was deforested at a minimum hundreds of years ago, and often thousands of years ago. Today, England is about 13% forest, and back in 1086 when the Domesday Book was written it was about 15%. Basically, this isn't new. At all.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoHow did they get numbers for percentage just after the norman conquest? Im imagining aerial maps for current measurements
- marcus_holmes 3y agoThey went around to every single village and town and asked them. The Doomsday book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book) is fascinating because of its thoroughness and completeness at such an early time.
- jjtheblunt 3y agoThanks! Definitely fascinating
- gambiting 3y agoHave you ever been there? The land in that area is rock with about an inch of soil on it, like most moorland - it would not support a forest, it never did(within the last couple thousand years anyway) . Romans didn't build the hadrians wall through a forest after all, the area was already barren then. And no one is directing me to feel angry - the tree did hold a special place in my heart, I've been to it with my dad shortly before he died, I've been there with my wife(then fiance), with my friends and family, it always felt like a pilgrimage to anyone living in the North East - and the fact that it was destroyed for literally no reason whatsoever makes my blood boil.
- jacquesm 3y agoI have never been there and it makes me pretty angry as well. The coward(s) that did this probably never suspected the kind of blowback this would create, if they're ever identified they'll have a hard time moving around the UK without meeting people that would like to have a word with them.
- huytersd 3y agoIf he’s guilty, won’t he be identified? It’s public record then right?
- davidvaughan 3y agoThe adult person under investigation has been named by the media. There is also a 16-year-old, who is too young to be publicly identified.
- pvaldes 3y ago> The land in that area is rock with about an inch of soil on it Because people abusing of wildfires and a spiral of overgrazing = more wildfires required, that is apparently a behavior as infectious as it was yesterday. Lack of soil is not an unsolvable problem. Soil can be moved from A to B so we can trow technology at this (and a lot of big shrubs can deal with poor soil, leading the way to bigger trees). The problem is the lack of will, and the never ending presence of criminal activity. If there is cattle in the area, there is a dictatorship of cattle.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoThere is a long history of human activity destroying the quality of land, and therefore ruining anything they hoped to get out of it. The Céide Fields[0] in Ireland are the example that sticks in my head the most. Both because something like it is included in Irish mythological cycles, and because of how it came to be known to the archaeological community. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ide_Fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ide_Fields
- weeblewobble 3y agoWhat do you mean “directed”? I read the facts of this situation and felt angry all on my own