Will the Scottish Government's Biodiversity Strategy reverse nature's decline?

[@gregf1792]

The trouble with the term "reversing nature decline" risks giving the impression that nature can be restored to exactly how it was before. I think what should be talked about is improving and enhancing nature to make it better than it is today and resilient for the warming world. The difference being not all species which were around historically will be able to thrive in a warming world

[@arthurscott8583]

Reversing Scotland's biodiversity decline will not happen until there is a recognition at the highest level that the fundamental cause of this decline comes from the way our economy is geared to serve the interests of a minority vested interests ranging from billionaire land owners to private and "public owned" corporate business. For example: In my area our roads are being destroyed by modern industrial farming and industrial forestry operations. At present the costs of this destruction lands at the door of local councils on the verge of bankruptcy. Instead of these costs being handed down to a public purse that is empty they should be passed to the people who create them in the form of taxes. Make the billionaire land owners and corporate business pay for the costs that they inflict on infrastructure and the environment and I guarantee free market forces would then enforce a correction that, in the long term, would transform the Scottish economy into one that recognised that we don't "Give Nature a Home" as a charitable donation but that Nature IS our home. If we disrespect our home by allowing it to be exploited for the benefit of a tiny minority of self serving interests the consequences will always be environmental decline and worsening standard of living for the majority. Any Government Biodiversity Strategy that fails to recognise these fundamental truths simply becomes an empty PR exercise that perpetuates the problem indefinitely into the future.

[@Topcat634]

I say, the strategy has to be done by the government to outline the investment where it came from. If they’re not acting now, there will be big bother, indeed.

[@davidstewartbluetess2815]

😂 nonsense