{"id":6449,"date":"2015-10-06T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2015-10-06T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:02:14","slug":"our-green-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/10\/06\/our-green-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Our green desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was the phrase used by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonkingwildlife.com\">Simon King<\/a> in his compelling and engaging, but unsettling, talk at the Bruton Eco-school roadshow the other week. \u00a0He was referring as much to Somerset as to England more widely, comparing the here and now with the land of lost content. \u00a0I was reminded of it today by a story in the press about the demise of the spotted flycatcher, and the much-maligned wasp.<\/p>\n<p>The land may well be a green colour \u2013 we still have a lot of grass \u2013 but it's relatively (and often absolutely) barren in terms of species decimated, habitats denuded, and interconnections lost. \u00a0I started drafting\u00a0this post on a slow speed train, pootling through the Cotswolds where there is landscape to spare, but fewer birds, dragonflies, small mammals, moths, beetles, etc, etc, than ever.<\/p>\n<p>I blame our Faustian pact with intensive agriculture and its agrochemical \/ pesticidal fellow travellers that's been locked in place by the corrupt banalities of the common agricultural project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the phrase used by Simon King in his compelling and engaging, but unsettling, talk at the Bruton Eco-school roadshow the other week. \u00a0He was referring as much to Somerset as to England more widely, comparing the here and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}