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'Development' and 'Globalisation' - A good thing? |
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It's an indicator of our time, where we describe wholesale destruction of our natural world as 'development', where globalisation is a buzz word for all things good.
Development in the UK more often than not, equals more industrial estates dominated by warehousing and distribution centres taking up masses of space but offering little in the form of skilled work or well paid jobs. Meanwhile the rich get richer, the poor, poorer and our environment suffers.
Development is where the money comes first above all else, where quality of life, natural diversity and knowledge of the world around us comes second to financial greed. It's where our own government sanctions the destruction of designated and protected wildlife sites (SSSI's - Sites of Special Scientific Interest) in the name of development, be it new roads and motorways, industrial estates or housing developments. |
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England's Green and Pleasant Land.
Do we want to
lose this in the blind pursuit for more money? |
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The scar on our countryside continues to grow as 'development'
creates increased traffic, litter stress on local resources. |
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Human Population |
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Did you know that the whole of the UK represents less than one sixth of one percent of the total landmass of the world yet holds more than one percent of the world's human population?
Yet, despite falling birth rates in the UK, the human population of this small island continues to increase (due primarily to uncontrolled and unmonitored immigration) placing huge demands on our natural environment and our essential services.
More people need more homes, destroying woodland, farmland and other environments within which butterflies and other wildlife make their home.
More homes and people need more water placing greater pressure on our rivers and the marshland in which some of our wildlife including some species of butterfly depend.
More people take more holidays. New airports, airport runways and increased air traffic destroy more land and increase atmospheric pollution.
More people have more cars which in order to solve traffic jams means more roads that fragment and destroy our natural environment. More cars equals more drives on which to park your car. Less garden, less flowers and less chance you will see a butterfly as you move from the outskirts of a town or city to its centre. Every time you see a dead bird or animal on a road, that's a species trying to survive in a fragmented landscape and failing.
The human impact is being felt across the natural world. The Indian Tiger, almost extinct due to human pressure, the Orangutan, genetically one of our closest relatives under immense pressure due to the demand for Palm Oil in everything from biscuits to soup. Whales across the globe are under threat from 'scientific' hunting and our oceans and beaches are a soup of discarded plastic. It all makes great news headlines, and across the globe hundreds of species of butterfly and moth are also under threat and need your help too.
You can help... you could become a member of Butterfly Conservation or make a donation to Butterfly Conservation. Visit their web site at:
www.butterfly-conservation.org and click on the 'support' link. |
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"The
whole of the UK
represents
less than one
sixth of one
percent of the
total landmass
of the world
yet it holds more
than one
percent of the
worlds human
population and our
population is increasing
despite
falling birth rates"
"As the population increases, a greater demand is placed on our countryside. it's creatures like butterflies which suffer the greatest losses" |
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