kfpben
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I noticed how the local views towards badgers hardened somewhat a couple of summers ago when they dug up half the village green and ruined the cricket pitch meaning the team had to rent another ground for the season.That rather reminds me of the motto of my favourite author, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, 'BB':
The wonder of the world
The beauty and the power,
The shapes of things,
Their colours, lights and shades,
These I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts.
And the last lines of Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality':
...Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Well, I'm more green than most, and have no problems with re-wilding where possible; but... a lot of 'environmentalists' have a fixed ideal of what is the 'right' sort of natural environment. I've had some of them ranting at me about my being p!ssed off with badgers ruining pasture etc., and they always give the nauseatingly predictable response 'But the badgers were there first...'
Yet they don't want to hear that the badgers were everywhere first; where the schools are now, where the roads are now, where the hospitals are now, where the offices and factories are now and where they live now - and... my fields have been there for a damned sight longer than most, probably all of those! They never want to hear that, and they never respond to it either.
They were ‘dealt with’!