This is an interesting point over where do we define ‘nature/natural’. Man has affected the landscape for thousands of years. Large areas have been changed (sometimes better, sometimes worse) by the grazing of livestock. Do we stop eating meat so that mountain pastures that are not suitable for crops return to whatever their ‘natural’ state is? Will they be wild flower meadows, forests, scrubland?
Man has also made much more recent land use changes with the biofuel industries, wood pellets, ethanol etc. What natural point should we return these to?
This is an interesting point over where do we define ‘nature/natural’. Man has affected the landscape for thousands of years. Large areas have been changed (sometimes better, sometimes worse) by the grazing of livestock. Do we stop eating meat so that mountain pastures that are not suitable for crops return to whatever their ‘natural’ state is? Will they be wild flower meadows, forests, scrubland?
Man has also made much more recent land use changes with the biofuel industries, wood pellets, ethanol etc. What natural point should we return these to?
