It’s hard to discuss this stuff because some people think all carbon offsetting is inherently evil. It’s not. It’s complicated but this post explains the problem with carbon neutrality (bad) vs net zero (good), both of which require some amount of carbon offsetting. philsturgeon.com/carbon-offse...

No magic wands. Simply close the gap on driving and public transport by increasing the cost of one whilst decreasing the cost of the other.

Look at the graph. Get the lines closer together. 🫡

There’s no magically making public transport perfect THEN taxing motorists.

“The analysis also finds that the fuel duty freeze disproportionately benefits the richest households. This year, almost two-thirds of savings from the freeze (64%, £2.2bn) will go to the richest half of households, and just over a third of savings (36%, £1.2bn) will go to the poorest half.”

Trend continues obviously.

If you want to ignore the post that came from try reading this. neweconomics.org/2023/03/carb...

Which quid.

Yeah that’s how the “why don’t we upgrade existing lines instead” argument was repeated as a popular “alternative”, not that it would lead to the necessary long term capacity improvements.

The right answer was always “both”, and now we’re doing neither.

Prices been going up on public transport for years.

Driving has been subsidised for years.

Gotta break that cycle, and you do it by taxing polluting methods of transportation, and use the income to roll out more public transportation.

“Carrots only” doesn’t work. philsturgeon.com/unf-king-the...

Extremely unclear what you’re talking about.

Yes I’ve driven in London. It was a shitshow. Would have loved to use public transport (there’s plenty) but I was carrying a few litres of hazardous chemicals which would have been illegal. What’s your point.

- Yep I said English railways.

- There are more options than “mismanaged by gov” and “mismanaged by private interests” aren’t there.

- ROSCOs are train landlords, they’re syphoning money out of our economy to tax havens like Gibraltar. Nationalising requires removing these parasites.

The ”upgrade” to junction 11 on the M5 is going to cost £363mn
(fuck knows where the money goes) and is going ahead

Reopening the Stonehouse station on the Birmingham / Bristol line would cost around £25mn but trying to get it funded is impossible

If you’re after apples to apples then within cities you can go postcode by postcode for a good proxy for income, and show similar results.

Also in cities rich folks often push back against public transport because then poors will come and steal all their stuff or something. Wild.

Car owners trend wealthier.

Public transport users trend lower income.

We’ve been putting public transport prices up and slashing services, whilst freezing fuel duty, taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

Network Rail manage the infrastructure, but English railways are not nationalised until the TOCs and ROSCOs are fully in public control.

Yeah I was 20% to 80% by the time I got breakfast. Didn’t actually need to charge because 200mi is plenty, but might as well. 🤷🏻

Local nature groups? Not sure where you are but there’s always a mixture of interest folks on Facebook groups and other orgs. Wildlife Trust in your area can point you to some useful folks too. If all else fails send me som photos and pins and more questions on protect.earth/contact

Bracken is a habitat too. We have some that’s a SSSI, which would probably wildflower/woodland up if crushed. Basically you’re never really creating anything, just changing from one to another, so a lot more information is needed to know if that bracken should be removed, thinned, or left alone.

Hahahahahahha omfg that might go well

Strong. @protect.earth owns the wood and as a charity we just want it not knackered, but there’s always lateral aims like helping community and uni groups do their thing. This was put on our radar by local councillors so I’m inclined to agree so long as, as you say, they leave it as found.