Laurence Rose’s piece emphasises the importance of rethinking what land is for – https://markavery.info/2021/03/30/guest-blog-saving-nature-how-radical-do-we-need-to-be-by-laurence-rose/.
Bella Lack’s piece is a call to arms – https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/30/nature-lockdown-government-environmental-crisis. “… We must use what we have experienced, what we have learned and what we have felt, and channel that into a determined effort to challenge political apathy and drive political will by questioning the very fundamentals of how our government is approaching the environmental crisis. It’s no longer about modest adjustments as we tinker at the edges of the system; it’s about changing the very story we tell ourselves. It’s about changing our national narrative from one of endless growth and consumption to one where values of respect, compassion and wellbeing are at the heart of what we do. …”
Les Wallace asks us to think about what UK wildlife would look like without human intervention and hence what we might aspire to – https://markavery.info/2022/08/20/guest-blog-blue-frogs-and-scimitar-cats-by-les-wallace/. The books ‘Rebirding’ by Benedict Macdonald and ‘The World Without Us’ by Alan Weisman cover some of the same ground.

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